RFC 1738 · December 1994 · T. Berners-Lee, L. Masinter, M. McCahill
Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
PROPOSED STANDARDLegacy stream
Obsoleted by RFC 4248, RFC 4266. Read the newer document for current behaviour.
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- RFC 8089 — The "file" URI Scheme
- RFC 6270 — The 'tn3270' URI Scheme
- RFC 6196 — Moving mailserver: URI Scheme to Historic
- RFC 3986 — Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax
- RFC 2396 — Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax
- RFC 2368 — The mailto URL scheme
- RFC 1808 — Relative Uniform Resource Locators
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