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Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) SCHEMES
(last updated 07 October 2005)
This is the Official IANA Registry of URI Schemes
In the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) definition [RFC3986,RFC1738]
there is a field, called "scheme", to identify the type of resource
and access method.
Scheme Name Description Reference
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ftp File Transfer Protocol [RFC1738]
http Hypertext Transfer Protocol [RFC2616]
gopher The Gopher Protocol [RFC-hoffman-gopher-uri-03.txt]
mailto Electronic mail address [RFC2368]
news USENET news [RFC1738]
nntp USENET news using NNTP access [RFC1738]
telnet Reference to interactive sessions [RFC-hoffman-telnet-uri-04.txt]
wais Wide Area Information Servers [RFC4156]
file Host-specific file names [RFC1738]
prospero Prospero Directory Service [RFC4157]
z39.50s Z39.50 Session [RFC2056]
z39.50r Z39.50 Retrieval [RFC2056]
cid content identifier [RFC2392]
mid message identifier [RFC2392]
vemmi versatile multimedia interface [RFC2122]
service service location [RFC2609]
imap internet message access protocol [RFC2192]
nfs network file system protocol [RFC2224]
acap application configuration access protocol [RFC2244]
rtsp real time streaming protocol [RFC2326]
tip Transaction Internet Protocol [RFC2371]
pop Post Office Protocol v3 [RFC2384]
data data [RFC2397]
dav dav [RFC2518]
opaquelocktoken opaquelocktoken [RFC2518]
sip session initiation protocol [RFC3261]
sips secure session intitiaion protocol [RFC3261]
tel telephone [RFC2806]
fax fax [RFC2806]
modem modem [RFC2806]
ldap Lightweight Directory Access Protocol [RFC-ietf-ldapbis-url-09.txt]
https Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure [RFC2818]
soap.beep soap.beep [RFC3288]
soap.beeps soap.beeps [RFC3288]
xmlrpc.beep xmlrpc.beep [RFC3529]
xmlrpc.beeps xmlrpc.beeps [RFC3529]
urn Uniform Resource Names [RFC2141]
(please see: http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-namespaces)
go go [RFC3368]
h323 H.323 [RFC3508]
ipp Internet Printing Protocol [RFC3510]
tftp Trivial File Transfer Protocol [RFC3617]
mupdate Mailbox Update (MUPDATE) Protocol [RFC3656]
pres Presence [RFC3859]
im Instant Messaging [RFC3860]
mtqp Message Tracking Query Protocol [RFC3887]
iris.beep iris.beep [RFC3983]
dict dictionary service protocol [RFC2229]
snmp Simple Network Management Protocol [RFC4088]
crid TV-Anytime Content Reference Identifier [RFC4078]
tag tag [RFC-kindberg-tag-uri-07.txt]
dns Domain Name System [RFC-draft-josefsson-dns-url-13.txt]
Reserved URI Scheme Names:
afs Andrew File System global file names
tn3270 Interactive 3270 emulation sessions
mailserver Access to data available from mail servers
REFERENCES
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[RFC1738] Berners-Lee, T., L. Masinter, and M. McCahill, "Uniform
Resource Locators (URL)", RFC 1738, CERN, Xerox Corporation,
University of Minnesota, December 1994.
[RFC2056] Denenberg, R., J. Kunze, D. Lynch, "Uniform Resource
Locators for Z39.50", RFC 2056, Library of Congress,
University of California, San Francisco, SilverPlatter
Information Ltd., November 1996.
[RFC2122] Mavrakis, D., H. Layec, and K. Kartmann, "VEMMI URL
Specification", RFC 2122, Monaco Telematique, ETSI,
Telecommunication+Multimedia, March 1997.
[RFC2141] R. Moats, "URN Syntax", RFC 2141, May 1997.
[RFC2165] Veizades, J., E. Guttman, C. Perkins, and A. Kaplan,
"Service Location Protocol", RFC 2165, @Home Network, Sun
Microsystems, June 1997.
[RFC2192] Newman, C., "IMAP URL Scheme", RFC 2192, Innosoft, September 1997.
[RFC2224] Callaghan, B., "NFS URL Scheme", RFC 2224, Sun Microsystems,
October 1997.
[RFC2229] R. Faith and B. Martin, "A Dictionary Server Protocol",
RFC 2229, October 1997.
[RFC2244] Newman, C., and J. Myers, "ACAP -- Application Configuration
Access Protocol", RFC 2244, Innosoft, Netscape, November 1997.
[RFC2326] Schulzrinne, H., Rao, A., and R. Lanphier, "Real Time
Streaming Protocol (RTSP)", RFC 2326, Columbia U., Netscape,
RealNetworks, April 1998.
[RFC2368] Hoffman, P., Masinter, L., and J. Zawinski, "The mailto URL
scheme", RFC 2368, July 1998.
[RFC2371] Lyon, J., Evans, K., and J. Klein, "Transaction Internet
Protocol Version 3.0", RFC 2371, July 1998.
[RFC2384] Gellens, R., "POP URL Scheme", RFC 2384, Qualcomm Inc.,
August 1998.
[RFC2392] Levinson, E., "Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource
Locators", RFC 2392, XIson Inc, August 1998.
[RFC2396] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform
Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax", RFC 2396,
August 1998.
[RFC2397] Masinter, L., "The "data" URL scheme", RFC 2397, August 1998.
[RFC2518] Goland, Y., Whitehead, E., Faizi, A., Carter, S. and
D. Jensen, "HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring --
WEBDAV", RFC 2518, February 1999.
[RFC2609] Guttman, E., Perkins, C., Kempf J., "Service Templates and
Service: Schemes", RFC 2609, June 1999.
[RFC2616] R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk, L. Masinter,
P. Leach, T. Berners-Lee, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1",
RFC 2616, June 1999.
[RFC2806] Vaha-Sipila, A., "URLs for Telephone Calls", RFC 2806,
April 2000.
[RFC2818] E. Rescorla, "HTTP Over TLS", RFC 2818, May 2000.
[RFC3261] J. Rosenberg, H. Schulzrinne, G. Camarillo, A. Johnston,
J. Peterson, R. Sparks, M. Handley, and E. Schooler,
"SIP: Session Initiation Protocol", RFC 3261, June 2002.
[RFC3288] E. O'Tuathail and M. Rose, "Using SOAP in BEEP",
RFC 3288, June 2002.
[RFC3305] URI Planning Interest Group/W3C/IETF URIs, URLs, and
URNs: Clarifications and Recommendations Report from
the joint W3C/IETF URI Planning Interest Group, RFC 3305,
August 2002.
[RFC3368] M. Mealling, "The 'go' URI Scheme for the Common Name
Resolution Protocol", RFC 3368, August 2002.
[RFC3508] O. Lvein, "H.323 URL Scheme Registration with IANA", RFC 3508,
April 2003.
[RFC3510] R. Herriot and I. McDonald, "Internet Printing Protocol/1.1:
IPP URL Scheme", RFC 3510, April 2003.
[RFC3529] W. Harold, "Using XML-RPC in BEEP", RFC 3529, April 2003.
[RFC3617] E. Lear, "URI Scheme for the TFTP Protocol", RFC 3617, October 2003.
[RFC3656] R. Siemborski, "The MUPDATE Distributed Mailbox Database Protocol",
RFC3656, December 2003.
[RFC3859] J. Peterson, "Common Profile for Presence (CPP)", RFC 3859,
August 2004.
[RFC3860] J. Peterson, " Common Profile for Instant Messaging (CPIM)", RFC 3860,
August 2004.
[RFC3887] T. Hansen, "Message Tracking Query Protocol", RFC 3887,
September 2004.
[RFC3983] A. Newton and M. Sanz, "IRIS - Using the Internet Registry
Information Service (IRIS) over the Blocks Extensible Exchange
Protocol (BEEP)", RFC 3983, January 2005.
[RFC3986] T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding and L. Masinter, "Uniform Resource
Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", RFC 3986, January 2005.
[RFC4078] N. Earnshaw, S. Aoki, A. Ashley, and W. Kameyama, "The TV-Anytime
Content Reference Identifier (CRID)", RFC 4078, May 2005.
[RFC4088] D. Black, K. McCloghrie, and J. Schoenwaelder, "Uniform Resource
Identifier (URI) Scheme for the Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMP)", RFC 4088, June 2005.
[RFC-ietf-ldapbis-url-09.txt]
M. Smith, Ed. and T. Howes, "LDAP: Uniform Resource Locator",
RFC XXXX, Month Year.
[RFC-kindberg-tag-uri-07.txt]
T. Kindberg and S. Hawke, "The 'tag' URI scheme", RFC XXXX, Month Year.
[RFC4156] P. Hoffman, "The wais URI Scheme", RFC 4156, August 2005.
[RFC4157] P. Hoffman, "The prospero URI Scheme", RFC 4157, August 2005.
[RFC-hoffman-telnet-uri-04.txt]
P. Hoffman, "The telnet URI Scheme", RFC XXXX, Month Year.
[RFC-hoffman-gopher-uri-03.txt]
P. Hoffman, "The gopher URI Scheme", RFC XXXX, Month Year.
[RFC-draft-josefsson-dns-url-13.txt]
S. Josefsson, "Domain Name System Uniform Resource Identifiers",
RFC XXXX, Month Year.