parse_url function

Parse and build urls according to RFC3986.

See https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986 for details of parsing algorithm.

parse_url(url)

build_url(url)

Arguments

• url: For parse_url a character vector (of length 1) to parse into components; for build_url a list of components to turn back into a string.

Returns

a list containing:

• scheme
• hostname
• port
• path
• params
• fragment
• query, a list
• username
• password

Examples

parse_url("http://google.com/")
parse_url("http://google.com:80/")
parse_url("http://google.com:80/?a=1&b=2")

url <- parse_url("http://google.com/")
url$scheme <- "https"
url$query <- list(q = "hello")
build_url(url)