Activity Forums Salesforce® Discussions What is difference between URL and URI in Salesforce?

  • Sumit

    Member
    April 2, 2020 at 12:27 pm

    URI: Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a string of characters used to identify a name or a resource on the Internet. Such identification enables interaction with representations of the resource over a network (typically the World Wide Web) using specific protocols
    URL: In computing, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a subset of the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies where an identified resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it.
    Example
    To identify a specific resource and how to access it - in all completeness
    URI: mysql://localhost@databasename:password
    The URL shows you where you can find the database on the internet and which protocol you should use.
    URL: mysql://localhost

  • Manish

    Member
    April 2, 2020 at 1:37 pm

    URL stands for Uniform Resource locator and URI stands for Uniform Resource Identifier?

  • Marziya

    Member
    April 2, 2020 at 2:21 pm

    HII Aditya,
    URL is a subset of URI that specifies where a resource exists and the mechanism for retrieving it, while URI is a superset of URL that identifies a resource. The main aim of URL is to get the location or address of a resource whereas the main aim of URI is to find a resource.

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