URL Link Splitter

Why break a url string into separate parts

This is a simple tool to parse a URL into the different components, SCHEME, HOST, PORT, USER, PASS, PATH, QUERY or FRAGMENT. It incorporates a technique for parsing URLs into parts.

A URL string is a structured string containing multiple meaningful components. When parsed, a URL object is returned containing properties for each of these components.

[protocol:][//host[:port]][path][?query][#fragment]

The query string portion of a dynamic URL contains the search parameters. It parses the string into variables with each parameter being a property.

This function is not meant to validate the given URL, it only breaks it up into the above listed parts.

Parts of a regular web url

                                                        | request ----------------------------------------------- |
                                                        | path ------------------- |                              |
        | authorization | | domain -------------- |     | directory ---- || file - | | query ---------------- |   |
        |               | |                       |     |                ||        | |                        |   |
https://username:password@www.subdomain.example.com:1234/folder/subfolder/index.html?search=products&sort=false#top
|       |        |        |   |         |       |   |   |       |         |     |    |      |        |    |     |
|       username |        |   |         |       |   |   folder  folder    |     |    |      value    |    value |
protocol         password |   |         |       |   port                  |     |    parameter       parameter  |
                          |   |         |       1st-level-domain          |     file-extension                  fragment
                          |   |         2nd-level-domain                  filename
                          |   3rd-level-domain
                          4th-level-domain

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• protocol: The protocol scheme of the URL (e.g. http:)
• slashes: A boolean which indicates whether the protocol is followed by two forward slashes (//)
• auth: Authentication information portion (e.g. username:password)
• username: Username of basic authentication
• password: Password of basic authentication
• host: Host name with port number
• hostname: Host name without port number
• port: Optional port number
• pathname: URL path
• query: Parsed object containing query string, unless parsing is set to false
• hash: The "fragment" portion of the URL including the pound-sign (#)
• href: The full URL
• origin: The origin of the URL