[Sussex] http naming conventions

[Steve Dobson]

Karl, Andrew

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 07:30:48PM +0000, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 07:26:58PM -0000, Andrew Guard wrote:
> > Well my brain has decide to have silly moment and can not remember what
> > this is called, I did read about it at w3c. I know it but darn can not
> > remember what it is called at the moment.  Lets explain,
> > 
> > I take that "127.0.0.1:81/test/stream.html" is the URL,
> 
> Technically speaking that is not a URL, as the protocol is missing.
> Probably http in this case.
> 
> > "127.0.0.1" is the IP,
> > "81" is the port.
> > 
> > But what is "test/stream.html" part called?
> 
> path, if I remember correctly

It appears you do.  From RFC 2396:

   <scheme>://<authority><path>?<query>

See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt section 3 for full details.

Steve