- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 10:58:49 -0500
- To: Gecse Roland <groland@balu.sch.bme.hu>
- Cc: www-lib <www-lib@w3.org>
Gecse Roland writes: > How can I figure out the hostname from URL-s like this (also without the > tailing slash): > > http://www.sch.bme.hu/~groland > > I know that this is not a valid URL since the HTTP server returns a > redirection to: > > http://www.sch.bme.hu/~groland/ > > but I need to extract the hostname from the first. I tried to use > > .. = HTParse(url, "", PARSE_HOST) > > but it returns NULL! Should I write my own hostname parser? It's the right was to do it and HTParse should never return NULL - it will at least return an empty string. This seems to me like a memory error somewhere... -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, <frystyk@w3.org> World-Wide Web Consortium, MIT/LCS NE43-356 545 Technology Square, Cambridge MA 02139, USA
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