On 8/1/2018 6:17 PM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> In the 2018 user survey, more than 40% of the 395 users who answered
> the question said they'd use a "URL handling" API in libcurl if one
> existed.
>
> I gave it some thoughts the other day and I've now jotted down my
> initial suggestion on how it could be made to work. An API that can
> parse a URL, extract the individual pieces, allow the user to set
> individual parts and finally to get the full URL out from there again.
>
> Here's my thoughts:
>
>   https://github.com/curl/curl/wiki/URL-API
>
> Good or bad? What would your application need and would this work for
> that? If not, how should we change it to make it better?
>
> (There's no promise that this will ever actually get implemented, but
> if we can come up with a proposal we believe in, I don't think there
> needs to be anything stopping it from happening...)

I think you overdid it (I know, I'm a little behind on this discussion
[1]), a struct would be simpler.

curl_url_parse(url, &parts);

curl_url_build(parts, &url);

Is there really a need for a more expansive API?

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqQ99s4Ywnw

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Received on 2018-08-12