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== Why is this an issue?
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Hard-coding a URI makes it difficult to test a program for a variety of reasons:
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* path literals are not always portable across operating systems
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* a given absolute path may not exist in a specific test environment
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* a specified Internet URL may not be available when executing the tests
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* production environment filesystems usually differ from the development environment
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In addition, hard-coded URIs can contain sensitive information, like IP addresses, and they should not be stored in the code.
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For all those reasons, a URI should never be hard coded. Instead, it should be replaced by a customizable parameter.
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Further, even if the elements of a URI are obtained dynamically, portability can still be limited if the path delimiters are hard-coded.
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This rule raises an issue when URIs or path delimiters are hard-coded.
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