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What is an example for a URI which is not a URL?
Every URL is a URI but not every URI is a URL is a saying I know from long ago, but what is an example for a URI which is not a URL (whatever the user agent would be - a web browser, a *nix utility such as curl and so forth)?
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This article shows in a concise and graphical way the difference between URIs and URLs.
A URI is an identifier of a specific resource. Like a page, or book, or a document.
A URL is special type of identifier that also tells you how to access it, such as HTTPs, FTP, etc.—like https://www.google.com.
So, an example of a URI which is clearly not a URL is an ISBN code for a book.
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