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.\" Modified Fri Aug 21 23:00:00 1999 by David A. Wheeler (dwheeler@dwheeler.com)
.\" Modified Tue Mar 14 2000 by David A. Wheeler (dwheeler@dwheeler.com)
.\"
+.\" FIXME Section titles and orderings in this page are very inconsistent
.TH URI 7 2000-03-14 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
uri, url, urn \- uniform resource identifier (URI), including a URL or URN
@@ -540,6 +541,13 @@ permitted, and can only be used when there is no defined base
(such as in dialog boxes).
Don't use abbreviated URIs as hypertext links inside a document;
use the standard format as described here.
+.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+.PP
+.IR http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
+(IETF RFC\ 2396),
+.I http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40
+(HTML 4.0).
+.UE
.SH NOTES
Any tool accepting URIs (e.g., a web browser) on a Linux system should
be able to handle (directly or indirectly) all of the schemes described here,
@@ -577,7 +585,7 @@ It is expected that GNOME and KDE
will converge to common URI formats, and a future
version of this man page will describe the converged result.
Efforts to aid this convergence are encouraged.
-.SH SECURITY
+.SS Security
.PP
A URI does not in itself pose a security threat.
There is no general guarantee that a URL, which at one time
@@ -620,13 +628,6 @@ intended to be secret.
In particular, the use of a password within
the 'userinfo' component of a URI is strongly recommended against except
in those rare cases where the 'password' parameter is intended to be public.
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
-.PP
-.IR http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
-(IETF RFC\ 2396),
-.I http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40
-(HTML 4.0).
-.UE
.SH BUGS
.PP
Documentation may be placed in a variety of locations, so there