URLx

Golang pkg for URL parsing and normalization.

1. Parsing URL (GoDoc)
2. Normalizing URL (GoDoc)
3. Splitting host:port from URL (GoDoc)
4. Resolving IP address from URL (GoDoc)

Parsing URL

The urlx.Parse() is compatible with the same function from net/url pkg, but has slightly different behavior. It enforces default scheme and favors absolute URLs over relative paths.

Difference between urlx and net/url

urlx.Parse("example.com")
&url.URL{
Scheme:  "http",
Host:    "example.com",
Path:    "",
}

url.Parse("example.com")
&url.URL{
Scheme:  "",
Host:    "",
Path:    "example.com",
}

urlx.Parse("localhost:8080")
&url.URL{
Scheme:  "http",
Host:    "localhost:8080",
Path:    "",
Opaque:  "",
}

url.Parse("localhost:8080")
&url.URL{
Scheme:  "localhost",
Host:    "",
Path:    "",
Opaque:  "8080",
}

urlx.Parse("user.local:8000/path")
&url.URL{
Scheme:  "http",
Host:    "user.local:8000",
Path:    "/path",
Opaque:  "",
}

url.Parse("user.local:8000/path")
&url.URL{
Scheme:  "user.local",
Host:    "",
Path:    "",
Opaque:  "8000/path",
}

Usage

import "github.com/goware/urlx"

func main() {
    url, _ := urlx.Parse("example.com")
    // url.Scheme == "http"
    // url.Host == "example.com"

    fmt.Print(url)
    // Prints http://example.com
}

Normalizing URL

The urlx.Normalize() function normalizes the URL using the predefined subset of Purell flags.

Usage

import "github.com/goware/urlx"

func main() {
    url, _ := urlx.Parse("localhost:80///x///y/z/../././index.html?b=y&a=x#t=20")
    normalized, _ := urlx.Normalize(url)

    fmt.Print(normalized)
    // Prints http://localhost/x/y/index.html?a=x&b=y#t=20
}

Splitting host:port from URL

The urlx.SplitHostPort() is compatible with the same function from net pkg, but has slightly different behavior. It doesn't remove brackets from [IPv6] host.

Usage

import "github.com/goware/urlx"

func main() {
    url, _ := urlx.Parse("localhost:80")
    host, port, _ := urlx.SplitHostPort(url)

    fmt.Print(host)
    // Prints localhost

    fmt.Print(port)
    // Prints 80
}

Resolving IP address from URL

The urlx.Resolve() is compatible with ResolveIPAddr() from net.

Usage

url, _ := urlx.Parse("localhost")
ip, _ := urlx.Resolve(url)

fmt.Print(ip)
// Prints 127.0.0.1

License

URLx is licensed under the MIT License.