URL question

[John Abreau]

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 18:09, Eric wrote:

> Hi.  What are the guidelines for writing a URL?  I looked around but
> pages like this, http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/u/url.htm
> tell me little.
> 
> Like, say I want to access a repository from the net, where do I put the
> port, or where do I put the path, etc.
> 
> svn://caffeinated.homelinux.net:3690

I believe the generic format is 

    service://user:password@hostname:port/path/to/resource?options

where for http, the "options" are of the form 

    param1=value1&param2=value2 

I dug around on google, and found that rfc1738 defines the syntax of 
URLs. You can find this rfc at 

    http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html

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