Parse URL

Parses a character string containing an RFC 3986 compliant URL as per NNG.

parse_url(url)

Arguments

url

character string containing a URL.

Value

A named character vector of length 7, comprising:

• scheme - the URL scheme, such as "http" or "inproc" (always lower case).

• userinfo - the username and password (if supplied in the URL string).

• hostname - the name of the host.

• port - the port (if not specified, the default port if defined by the scheme).

• path - the path, typically used with HTTP or WebSocket.

• query - the query info (typically following ? in the URL).

• fragment - used for specifying an anchor, the part after # in a URL.

Values that cannot be determined are represented by an empty string "".

Examples

parse_url("https://user:password@w3.org:8080/type/path?q=info#intro")
#>          scheme        userinfo        hostname            port            path 
#>         "https" "user:password"        "w3.org"          "8080"    "/type/path" 
#>           query        fragment 
#>        "q=info"         "intro" 
parse_url("tcp://192.168.0.2:5555")
#>        scheme      userinfo      hostname          port          path 
#>         "tcp"            "" "192.168.0.2"        "5555"            "" 
#>         query      fragment 
#>            ""            ""