What to call part of a url

Question

So I've got a base Uri of:

https://graph.facebook.com/

Ok, you can append various sub paths such as this to their API:

/me/friends
/322323232
etc.

So you'd end up with something like this for their API calls:

https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?access_token=2343sdfse43.....

What would you call the /me/friends portion of this url? I mean it's not a "Uri". The Uri is the first part.

There's got to be some kind of official name to call sub directories under the Uri right? or no?

Answer 1

The URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) is the entire string. Also note that URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and URI are not the same; URL is a subset of URI. See Wikipedia's article for information.

In your example, /me/friends is known as the path.

Answer 2

I would call it the "path" or "route."