Everybody knows Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)1. As its name suggests, it’s a way to identify a resource (for instance a file or a phone number). It is often confused with Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which is actually a form of URI. A URL is a compact string representation for a resource available via the Internet2. Today I want to share with you the way I define another type of resources: network sockets. See RFC3986 “Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax” ↩ Quoti...
