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URL

Must be included via require.

url.encode​

Returns a URL-encoded string.

Parameters​

  1. The string to be encoded.
pluto
local url = require"pluto:url"
print("https://google.com/search?q="..url.encode("Pluto, a superset of Lua"))
--> https://google.com/search?q=Pluto%2C%20a%20superset%20of%20Lua

url.decode​

Returns a plain string from URL-decoding the input string.

Parameters​

  1. The string to be decoded.
pluto
local url = require"pluto:url"
print(url.decode("Pluto%2C%20a%20superset%20of%20Lua")) -- "Pluto, a superset of Lua"

url.parse​

Splits a URL into its constituent parts.

Parameters​

  1. The URL to be dissected.
pluto
local url = require"pluto:url"
print(dumpvar(url.parse("http://username:password@hostname:9090/path?arg=value#anchor")))
--> {
-->     ["scheme"] = string(4) "http",
-->     ["user"] = string(8) "username",
-->     ["pass"] = string(8) "password",
-->     ["host"] = string(8) "hostname",
-->     ["port"] = 9090,
-->     ["path"] = string(5) "/path",
-->     ["query"] = string(9) "arg=value",
-->     ["fragment"] = string(6) "anchor",
--> }