Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax

This specification has been revised 3 times since RFC 1808 (1995). Each document below formally obsoleted the one before it; the versions still in force are listed first.

Revision timeline

  1. RFC 1808 (1995)
  2. RFC 2396 (1998)
  3. RFC 2732 (1999)
  4. RFC 3986 (2005)

Current version — implement against this

Superseded versions — historical reference only

This lineage is derived automatically from the “obsoletes” relationships recorded in the public RFC Editor index — no editorial judgement is applied to the ordering. The most recent document in the chain is RFC 3986 (January 2005).