We all know URL now we’re talking about URI

just a little something for the user, who hopefully will have heard of a URL, so we could just give a high level bit of info on both and why URI is better for our case

• [ ] contents-ish piece
• [ ] what is difference
• [ ] what is URL ….components
• [ ] what is URI components
• [ ] why URI is important …..distributed network and why not URL
• [ ] evolution of use in web3
• [ ] use of URI in our projects

Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) vs Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

contents-ish piece

list of contents!!!!!

What is the difference in the first place? In really simple terms a URI is a thing and a URL is a place for things. A bit like a person and their home address.

And why are we going to talk about them………centralised points of failure!! Distributed network saviours!

what is a URL?

https://knowledge.pinata.cloud/en/articles/5455523-nfts-and-pinata The format of the image value is ipfs:// and not https://someurl.com . This is for good reason. Blockchain data is permanent. If you put a link to your asset in the form of some URL owned by Pinata or any other company, you run the risk of that URL not being available at some point in the future. How many sites use to exist on the web in the 90s and 2000s that no longer do?

what is a CID?

CID CIDs unique identifier for a piece of content. (include v.0 and v.1 for IPFS if needed)

Let’s break down URI components

URI: <scheme name>:<schemeSyntax>

URI = [scheme] “:” [authority] + [path] + [ “?” query ] + [ “#” fragment ]