What's the proper term for the URL sans query param?

Question

Say you have the following URL:

http://example.com/path?param=value

"param=value" is the query string "/path" is path "http://" is the protocol

What's the proper name for "http://example.com/path" only?

thanks! -nikita

Answer 1

I don't think there's a name for that particular cluster of parts, which are Scheme, Authority, Path respectively. You're just leaving off the Query and Fragment bits.

Answer 2

I think it's still just a URL. The items after '?' just facilitate the passing of parameters through an HTTP GET request.

Here's a good dissection of the parts of a URL: here

Answer 3

According to the Generic Syntax of an URI Scheme on Wikipedia:

[...] Every URI is defined as consisting of four parts, as follows:

<scheme name> : <hierarchical part> [ ? <query> ] [ # <fragment> ]

So "http://domain.com/path" is made of the <scheme name> and <hierarchical part> parts, there is no name to designate this couple as a whole.

The Uniform Resource Locator page on Wikipedia and it's Syntax is another interesting resource.

Answer 4

In short:    Just call it an absolute URL or simply URL.

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In detail:    There are many terms for that depending on the context.

According to the URL terminology (RFC 1808), your example is:

• a URL:

  URL         = ( absoluteURL | relativeURL ) [ "#" fragment ]
  

• an absoluteURL:

  absoluteURL = generic-RL | ( scheme ":" *( uchar | reserved ) )
  

• a generic-RL:

  generic-RL  = scheme ":" relativeURL
  

And according to the URI terminology (RFC 3986), your example is:

• a URI:

  URI           = scheme ":" hier-part [ "?" query ] [ "#" fragment ]
  

• a URI-reference:

  URI-reference = URI / relative-ref
  

  and

• an absolute-URI:

  absolute-URI  = scheme ":" hier-part [ "?" query ]
  

So just call it absolute URL/URI or URL/URI in general.