Computing Dictionary
Universal Resource Identifier definition
World-Wide Web (URI, originally "UDI" in some
WWW documents) The generic set of all names and addresses which are short strings which refer to objects (typically on the
Internet). The most common kinds of URI are
URLs and
relative URLs.
URIs are defined in
RFC 1630.
W3 specification (http://w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Addressing/URL/URI_Overview.html).
(1997-07-16)