Java Glossary : URL

Last updated 2004-06-28 by Roedy Green ©1996-2004 Canadian Mind Products

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URL

Uniform Resource Locator. The old name for URI. RFC 2396 describes the format of an URL. java.net.URL has been replaced by java.net.URI. Strictly speaking, every URL is a URI, but not every URI is a URL. URI's are an extension and refinement of the URL.

makeashorterlink ¤ SnipURL ¤ TinyURL ¤ URI ¤ URLConnection ¤ URN

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