A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a string of characters used to identify a name or a resource on the Internet. A URI identifies a resource either by location, or a name, or both. A URI has two specializations known as URL and URN. A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a subset of the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies where an identified resource is available and the ...
I am trying to post an info in an organization account in LinkedIn, for example, announcement info. As per doc I need to send a post request with URN inside it. I am struggling to get this URN first.
Roger's answer provides good pragmatic advice. For the official answer I go to the W3C who published "URIs, URLs, and URNs: Clarifications and Recommendations" in 2001. In a nutshell, W3C says the contemporary view is that everything is a URI. URL is an informal concept, not a formal concept. And the confusion dates back to a "classical view" which tried to rigidly distinguish between ...
What is the difference between a URI, a URL, and a URN?
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My application uses urn:uuid as URIs for entities. Of course, when I get, e.g. RDF information about a resource, the referred entities (subject or objects) will contain URIs in the urn:uuid schema....