1.2 Parsed URLs

The library functions typically operate on parsed versions of URLs. These are actually vectors of the form:

     [type user password host port file target attributes full]

where

type

is the type of the URL scheme, e.g., http

user

is the username associated with it, or nil;

password

is the user password associated with it, or nil;

host

is the host name associated with it, or nil;

port

is the port number associated with it, or nil;

file

is the `file' part of it, or nil. This doesn't necessarily actually refer to a file;

target

is the target part, or nil;

attributes

is the attributes associated with it, or nil;

full

is t for a fully-specified URL, with a host part indicated by ‘//’ after the scheme part.

These attributes have accessors named url-part, where part is the name of one of the elements above, e.g., url-host. Similarly, there are setters of the form url-set-part.

There are functions for parsing and unparsing between the string and vector forms.