URI path
The path of a URI is the section that comes after the authority. It contains data, usually organized in hierarchical form, to identify a resource within the scope of the URI’s scheme and naming authority.
Syntax
A path consists of a sequence of path segments separated by a slash (/) character:
http://example.com:80<path>
urn:<path>
Description
The path follows the authority and is terminated by the first question mark (?), number sign (#), or the end of the URI.
In the following two URIs:
urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-5359-3
https://example.com:80/images/animated/ayse.gif
nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-5359-3 is the path of the URN. /images/animated/ayse.gif is the path of the https URI.
Every URI has a path component, meaning the paths in the following examples are a forward-slash (/) in the first URL and an empty path component in the second:
https://example.com/
https://example.com
Browsers, including the {{domxref("URL")}} web API, normalize empty paths to /.
Specifications
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