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Name for host + path (parts of a URL)
Among other things, a URL consists of a host and a path:
I was wondering (and couldn't find anything) if there's a name for the combination of host and path.
Is there a name for these:
It would be useful to have a name for this combination of host and path since, for example, web browsers accept example.com/path in the URL bar and the connection works: The browser prepends the scheme and adds the port number.
Another example of how common host + path is, which became apparent after posting this question: Codidact's Markdown processor will turn example.com/path into a link:
<a href="http://example.com/path">example.com/path</a>
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| User | Comment | Date |
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| Matthias Braun |
Thread: Works for me Thanks! In my question I didn't mention the port number since it's not important to me if "suffix reference" can also mean |
Sep 7, 2023 at 19:17 |
RFC 3986 defines a suffix reference as follows (emphasis my own):
4.5. Suffix Reference
The URI syntax is designed for unambiguous reference to resources and extensibility via the URI scheme. However, as URI identification and usage have become commonplace, traditional media (television, radio, newspapers, billboards, etc.) have increasingly used a suffix of the URI as a reference, consisting of only the authority and path portions of the URI, such as
www.w3.org/Addressing/or simply a DNS registered name on its own. Such references are primarily intended for human interpretation rather than for machines, with the assumption that context-based heuristics are sufficient to complete the URI (e.g., most registered names beginning with "www" are likely to have a URI prefix of "http://"). Although there is no standard set of heuristics for disambiguating a URI suffix, many client implementations allow them to be entered by the user and heuristically resolved.
This is not quite what you've literally asked for, as the authority also optionally includes "userinfo" and the port[1], but it's as close as I could find to a standardized term and it mentions that this is what many implementations will accept when resolving URIs. If you really want to be specific, it's probably easiest just to say "host + path".
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↩︎authority = [ userinfo "@" ] host [ ":" port ]
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