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parseurl.c

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/* <DESC>
 * Basic URL API use.
 * </DESC>
 */
#include <stdio.h>
 
#include <curl/curl.h>
 
#if !CURL_AT_LEAST_VERSION(7, 62, 0)
#error "this example requires curl 7.62.0 or later"
#endif
 
int main(void)
{
  CURLU *h;
  CURLUcode uc;
  char *host;
  char *path;
 
  h = curl_url(); /* get a handle to work with */
  if(!h)
    return 1;
 
  /* parse a full URL */
  uc = curl_url_set(h, CURLUPART_URL, "http://example.com/path/index.html", 0);
  if(uc)
    goto fail;
 
  /* extract hostname from the parsed URL */
  uc = curl_url_get(h, CURLUPART_HOST, &host, 0);
  if(!uc) {
    printf("Hostname: %s\n", host);
    curl_free(host);
  }
 
  /* extract the path from the parsed URL */
  uc = curl_url_get(h, CURLUPART_PATH, &path, 0);
  if(!uc) {
    printf("Path: %s\n", path);
    curl_free(path);
  }
 
  /* redirect with a relative URL */
  uc = curl_url_set(h, CURLUPART_URL, "../another/second.html", 0);
  if(uc)
    goto fail;
 
  /* extract the new, updated path */
  uc = curl_url_get(h, CURLUPART_PATH, &path, 0);
  if(!uc) {
    printf("Path: %s\n", path);
    curl_free(path);
  }
 
fail:
  curl_url_cleanup(h); /* free URL handle */
  return 0;
}

Notice

This source code example is simplified and may ignore return codes and error checks. We do this to highlight the libcurl function calls and related options and reduce unrelated code.

A real-world application does of course properly check every return value and exit correctly at the first serious error.