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This documents research and notes around the URL specification.
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
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
See https://github.com/annevk/url/blob/master/url.js for now.
JavaScript libraries
For improving the API we might want to take inspiration from: