[KLUG Members] URI v URL

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I occasionally run across the acronym 'URI'. Is a URI the same as a URL or
> something different?

Once upon a time they were technically different;  but now they are at least
equivalent if not equal.  Even IANA documents now use the terms interchangably
in published documents.

URI = Uniform Resource Identifiers
URL = Uniform Resource Locators

The long tedious history can be found here - http://www.w3.org/Addressing/