April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
178 pages
3h 51m
English
Since the internet contains so many different resources, they all should be accessible via URIs and should be identified uniquely. Furthermore, the URIs can be in a human-readable format, despite the fact that their consumers are more likely to be software programs rather than ordinary humans.
Human-readable URIs keep data self-descriptive and ease further development against it. This helps you to keep the risk of logical errors in your programs to a minimum.
Here are a few sample examples of such URIs representing different resources in a catalog application: