URL Standard

E49006

The URL Standard is a technical specification by the WHATWG that defines how URLs are parsed, processed, and handled consistently across web browsers and platforms.


Statements (60)
Predicate Object
instanceOf WHATWG standard
technical specification
web standard
appliesTo browsers
non-browser user agents
server-side implementations
defines URL components
URL interface
URL parsing algorithms
URL processing model
URL serialization algorithms
URLSearchParams interface
concept of HTTP(S) URL
concept of IPv4 address parsing
concept of IPv6 address parsing
concept of URL canonicalization
concept of URL path state machine
concept of URL record
concept of URL resolution against a base
concept of URL search parameters
concept of base URL
concept of blob URL
concept of data URL
concept of domain
concept of domain to ASCII conversion
concept of domain to Unicode conversion
concept of file URL
concept of fragment
concept of host
concept of host parsing
concept of non-special schemes
concept of opaque origin
concept of origin serialization
concept of password
concept of path
concept of percent-encoding
concept of port
concept of query
concept of same-origin policy primitives
concept of scheme
concept of special URL
concept of special schemes
concept of username
origin concepts
percent-encode sets
focusesOn parsing of real-world URLs
fullName URL Standard
goal consistent URL handling across platforms
interoperable URL parsing across user agents
maintainedBy WHATWG
publisher WHATWG
relatedTo Encoding Standard
Fetch Standard
HTML Standard
replaces inconsistent legacy URL parsing behaviors
scope URLs on the web platform
status Living Standard
usedBy web browsers
web frameworks
web servers


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