url.c

This is a small library to parse and manipulate URLs in conformance to RFC 3986 and WHATWG.

It features

• No allocations
• No dependencies
• The ability to switch between RFC 3986 and WHATWG with a flag
• Relative reference parsing and resolution
• URL normalization
• Doesn't rely on null-terminated strings

Usage

You just copy paste url.h and url.c in your source tree and compile them as usual.

Some example programs are provided in the examples/ folder. To compile them, run build.bat on Windows or build.sh on Linux.

Testing

The parser and reference resolver is tested against the URL section of the web platform tests. Note that not all tests pass. This is due to the parser not doing any normalization and not supporting more niche features such as converting \ characters to / or supporting drive letters like C: in the URL's path.

To run the test suite, cd into tests/ and compile the test runner using build.sh (Linux) or build.bat (Windows). Then, run ./test.out (Linux) or ./test.exe (Windows).