RESTful URIs, Unicorns, and Pixie Dust
It often pains me to hear people talking about so-called “RESTful URLs”. If you’re using that term, or your spending the majority of you application planning designing URI structures rather than your media types, then chances are you don’t really…
URL vs. URI: URLs as Queries and URIs as Identities
Continuing my with my ranting about the URL vs. URI bit, I thought I’d continue on given my renewed interest in this topic thanks to Ora. In our LEDP position paper, we made the observation that URLs represent queries while…
URL vs. URI vs. URN: The Confusion Continues
A year has passsed since my last post on URIs and URLs and it would seem that some of the concepts are still lost on some folks. With that said, I figured I’d throw up another post that I could try…
URL vs. URI vs. URN, in More Concise Terms
Without a doubt, the URL vs. URI post is by the most visited page on this blog. Even so, there’s still a lot of confusion on the topic and so I thought I’d break it down in less words. The…
URI vs. URL: What’s the Difference?
Updated (1/18/2011): Because there’s still a lot of confusion, I’ve created a third post that attempts to resolve a lot of the questions from the comments on the last two posts. The new post is here. Updated (8/27/2009): I’ve created another…
