URL

This documents research and notes around URLs for the upcoming URL standard.

Implementations

• http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/platform/KURL.cpp
• http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/platform/KURLWTFURL.cpp
• http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/platform/KURLGoogle.cpp
• http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/platform/network/DataURL.cpp (data URLs)

Tests

• https://github.com/cweb/iri-tests

Terminology

URL string

What you find in attribute values, property values, method parameters, etc.

parse a URL string url using base URL base

Turning a URL string into a URL by using a base URL.

URL

An in-memory representation of a URL with various properties as elaborated on by model below.

URL interface/object

JavaScript representation of a URL.

Model

URL (.href)
- invalid?
- scheme (.protocol)
- authority
  - username (proposed .username)
  - password (proposed .password)
  - ip/host (.hostname)
  - port (.port)
- path (.pathname)
- query (.search)
- fragment (.hash)

Parsing

* https://github.com/annevk/url/blob/master/url.js
* http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2012Sep/0305.html has notes on file URLs in Gecko.

JavaScript libraries

For improving the API we might want to take inspiration from:

• http://medialize.github.com/URI.js/
• https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/master/doc/api/url.markdown
• https://github.com/bestiejs/punycode.js (just Punycode)