splitURL

Arguments

URL

String: An URL. Supported and tested: HTTP, HTTPS, FTP (IPv4 and IPv6)

proto

String: the protocol (ex: http, ftp, etc)

server

String: the server (ex: www.scilab.org)

path

String: the path (ex: /products/scilab)

query

String: query (ex: ?SearchText=plot3d)

username

String: username (ex: username:pass)

port

int: port (ex: 80)

Note that if the port is not provided in the URL, the value will be 0.

fragment

String: fragment (ex: #chapter1)

The fragment is also called anchor and it is used to create a bookmark inside an HTML document.

Description

Split an URL by component

This function is based on the libxml2 library (in particular, the function xmlParseURI).

Examples

[proto, server, path, query, username, port, fragment] = splitURL("http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-uri.html#xmlParseURI")

[proto, server, path] = splitURL("ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/debian/README")

[a,b,c,d]=splitURL("https://www.scilab.org/content/search?SearchText=plot")

See also

• getURL — Download an URL (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP...)

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