splitURL Split an URL (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP...)

## Syntax

    [proto, server, path, query, username, port, fragment] = splitURL(URL);

## Arguments

URL

  String: An URL. Supported and tested: HTTP, HTTPS, FTP (IPv4 and IPv6)

proto

  String: the protocol (ex: http, ftp, etc)

server

  String: the server (ex: www.scilab.org)

path

  String: the path (ex: /products/scilab)

query

  String: query (ex: ?SearchText=plot3d)

username

  String: username (ex: username:pass)

port

  int: port (ex: 80)

  Note that if the port is not provided in the URL, the value will be 0.
fragment

  String: fragment (ex: #chapter1)

  The fragment is also called anchor and it is used to create a bookmark inside an HTML document.

## Description

Split an URL by component

This function is based on the libxml2 library (in particular, the function xmlParseURI).

## Examples

                [proto, server, path, query, username, port, fragment] = splitURL("http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-uri.html#xmlParseURI")

                [proto, server, path] = splitURL("ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/debian/README")

                [a,b,c,d]=splitURL("http://www.scilab.org/content/search?SearchText=plot")

## See also

- getURL

## History

5.5.0 Function `splitURL()` introduced