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Sean P. DeNigris

Uri vs. Url

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It confuses me that the URI and Url class hierarchies are separate, given that a URL is a subset of URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier#Relationship_to_URL_and_URN). Does it make sense to unify these?

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Sean

Cheers,
Sean

cedreek

Re: Uri vs. Url

It confuses me that the URI and Url class hierarchies are separate, given that a URL is a subset of URI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier#Relationship_to_URL_and_URN). Does it make sense to unify these?

According to the class comment of URI

"Difference between URI, URL and URN

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A URI is a uniform resource identifier while a URL is a uniform resource locator. Every URL is a URI but not every URI is a URL. This is because there is another subcategory of URIs, uniform resource names (URNs), which name resources but do not specify how to locate them. The following expressions are URNs examples

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<a href="news:comp.lang.smalltalk">news:comp.lang.smalltalk

urn:isbn:000102002x"

Maybe, we should have

URI << URN

URI<<Url

My 2 cents,

Cédrick

Le 29 janv. 2011 à 09:03, DeNigris Sean a écrit :

Thanks.
Sean