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<reference anchor='RFC1808'>

<front>
<title>Relative Uniform Resource Locators</title>
<author initials='R.' surname='Fielding' fullname='Roy T. Fielding'>
<organization>University of California Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Science</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street />
<city>Irvine</city>
<region>CA</region>
<code>92717-3425</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<phone>+1 714 824 4049</phone>
<facsimile>+1 714 824 4056</facsimile>
<email>fielding@ics.uci.edu</email></address></author>
<date month='June' year='1995' />
<abstract>
<t>A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a compact representation of the location and access method for a resource available via the Internet. When embedded within a base document, a URL in its absolute form may contain a great deal of information which is already known from the context of that base document's retrieval, including the scheme, network location, and parts of the url-path.  In situations where the base URL is well-defined and known to the parser (human or machine), it is useful to be able to embed URL references which inherit that context rather than re-specifying it in every instance.  This document defines the syntax and semantics for such Relative Uniform Resource Locators.</t></abstract></front>

<seriesInfo name='RFC' value='1808' />
</reference>
