[Python-Dev] Suggestion: URL splitter that returns host, port, request URL

[Aahz]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004, Hamish Lawson wrote:
>
> The HTTP clients provided by many libraries (httplib in the Standard 
> Library, asynchttp, Twisted) do not deal with absolute URLs but instead 
> with the three component parts of host, port, and request URL. However 
> these are not the parts returned by either urlparse.urlsplit or 
> urlparse.urlparse. I therefore suggest it might be useful to have in the 
> Standard Library a function that splits an absolute URL into host, port, 
> and request URL. So for the following URL:
> 
>     "http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/FrontPage?action=edit"
> 
> the function would return
> 
>     ("www.python.org", 80, "/cgi-bin/moinmoin/FrontPage?action=edit")
> 
> An optional parameter could specify which port to use as default.

Sounds good; you'll need to post a patch on SF to make progress.
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