The street address of the Internet, the URI, is an interesting piece of syntax. Its specification is longer than those of some data languages, and together with all the existing schemes, it would take a couple of books to describe it all. The simplified form of an (absolute) URI is this:
scheme://host/path?query#fragment
Virtually all portions except the scheme can be omitted including their surrounding syntax, making the format very flexible and usable for a multitude of cases. Yet there are some cases where some of the design decisions cause troubles.
