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URI (RFC3986) - Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax

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Published on: 16/10/2017 Last update: 02/07/2019

A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a compact sequence of characters that identifies an abstract or physical resource.  This specification defines the generic URI syntax and a process for resolving URI references that might be in relative form, along with guidelines and security considerations for the use of URIs on the Internet.  The URI syntax defines a grammar that is a superset of all valid URIs, allowing an implementation to parse the common components of a URI reference without knowing the scheme-specific requirements of every possible identifier.  This specification does not define a  generative grammar for URIs; that task is performed by the individual specifications of each URI scheme.

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