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Addressing Schemes

This is (an attempt) at an exhaustive list of URI schemes. I try to list them all, whether they're standard (as of this writing, Jan 1996) or not.

See also: notes on URI schemes from the area director of the IETF Applications Area.

If you are designing a new scheme, please let us know by sending a message to www-talk.

URI Schemes in Alphabetical Order

cid:

Content-ID. Syntax ala news: Where is it defined???

clsid:

Feb 28 draft. identifies OLE/COM classes. related to OBJECT spec

data:

"Data: URL scheme", L. Masinter, 02/12/1996. (3388 bytes)
originally proposed by Masinter on www-talk. related to Inserting Multimedia Objects into HTML

file:

Host-specific file names URL RFC

finger:

IETF URI Working Group
Internet-Draft
draft-ietf-uri-url-finger-03
Expires January 11, 1996
finger URL Specification

ftp:

File Transfer protocol URL RFC

gopher:

The Gopher protocol URL RFC

hdl:

CNRI handle system

http:

Hypertext Transfer Protocol URL RFC HTTP spec

https:

HTTP over SSL. Spec?

ilu:

ILU types, string binding handles

IOR:

CORBA interoperable object reference

irc:

Mirashi draft (also: PICS service) spec

java:

identifies java classes (@@spec?)

lifn:

BFD -- Bulk File distribution.

mailto:

Electronic mail address URL RFC

mailserver:

for mailing lists etc. (@@some internet draft???). Combine this with mailto:?

md5:

MD5 is a cryptographic checksum. Anybody using it as a URI scheme?

mid:

Message-ID. by MHTML WG draft

news:

USENET news URL RFC

nntp:

USENET news using NNTP access URL RFC

path:

path spec

prospero:

Prospero Directory Service URL RFC

service:

service location protocol

shttp

snews

NNTP over SSL?

STANF:

Stable Network Filenames

telnet:

Reference to interactive sessions URL RFC

vemmi:

VEMMI URL Specification, D. Mavrakis, H. Layec, K. Kartmann, 24 Feb 1996

wais:

Wide Area Information Servers URL RFC

whois++:

Distributed directory service. @@need to find spec.