In programming, a file uniform resource identifier (URI) scheme is a specific format of URI, used to specifically identify a file on a host computer. While URIs can be used to identify anything, there is specific syntax associated with identifying files.[1][2]
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a file uniform resource identifier (URI) scheme is a specific format of URI, used to specifically identify a file on a host computer. While URIs can...
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Magnet is a URIscheme that defines the format of magnet links, a de facto standard for identifying files (URN) by their content, via cryptographic hash...
This article lists common URIschemes. A Uniform Resource Identifier helps identify a source without ambiguity. Many URIschemes are registered with the...
documents Filing (legal), submitting a document to the clerk of a court Computer file, a resource for storing information fileURIschemefile (command)...
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The geo URIscheme is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force's RFC 5870 (published 8 June 2010) as:...
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lowercase letters. Examples of popular schemes include http, https, ftp, mailto, file, data and irc. URIschemes should be registered with the Internet...
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a fragment, the fragment follows the query. Query parts depend on the URIscheme and are evaluated by the server—e.g., http: supports queries unlike ftp:...
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double-clicked on a file that they received via email, instant messaging, or another vector, including a different browser. The data URIscheme offers an alternative...
Double URI-encoding is a special type of double encoding in which data is URI-encoded twice in a row. It has been used to bypass authorization schemes and...
files such as images within scripts, to avoid depending on external files. Base64 can be used to embed PDF files in HTML pages. The data URIscheme can...
such as XQuery The URI specification itself has sufficient richness to express a functional programming language. The active URIscheme was proposed by Hewlett-Packard...
blob, in open source software, a non-free object file loaded into the kernel Blob URIscheme, a URIscheme for binary data A region in an image detected...
also contain an address bar into which the file or directory path (or URI) can be typed. Most navigational file managers have two panes, the left pane being...