URIs
One of the main components in the HTTP protocol is a URI. URI stands for Uniform Resource Identifiers and is the method by which you will access the API. You may be asking what the difference between a URI and a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is? When I started to write this chapter, I wondered about this myself and did what any self-respecting developer would do, which is to head over to Stack Overflow. Unfortunately, my confusion only grew as there were lots of detailed answers, none of which I found particularly enlightening. Time to head over to the inner circle of hell also known as W3C standards to look up the RFC for the official answer.
In short, there is no difference, a URL is a URI that identifies a resource by its network ...
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