Is a URC (Uniform Resource Citation) synonymous with a Query String or Url Parameters?
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/366551
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29-01-2021 - |
Question
Reading this:
https://renenyffenegger.ch/notes/development/web/URI-URL-URN-IRI-URC
URCs provide a set of attribute/value pairs that describe properties of URIs like authorship, publisher, copyright etc.
Is that synonymous with the query string found in here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask?authorship=foo&publisher=bar©right=etc
namely, could
?authorship=foo&publisher=bar©right=etc
be considered the URC?
Solution
I gather from Wikipedia's Uniform Resource Characteristic article (and references in that article) that URCs are properties embedded (contained) within the specific resource.
So when you fetch a web page, for example, the page's URC might be embedded in the page using <meta>
elements.
But URCs were never standardised/implemented (so they're not in fact uniform).