examples/parseurl.c: show off the URL API a bit

Closes #3030

2 files changed, 79 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/docs/examples/Makefile.inc b/docs/examples/Makefile.inc
index 206a89237..d0f55eebb 100644
--- a/docs/examples/Makefile.inc
+++ b/docs/examples/Makefile.inc
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ check_PROGRAMS = 10-at-a-time anyauthput cookie_interface debug fileupload \
   imap-tls imap-multi url2file sftpget ftpsget postinmemory http2-download \
   http2-upload http2-serverpush getredirect ftpuploadfrommem               \
   ftpuploadresume sslbackend postit2-formadd multi-formadd                 \
-  shared-connection-cache sftpuploadresume http2-pushinmemory
+  shared-connection-cache sftpuploadresume http2-pushinmemory parseurl
 
 # These examples require external dependencies that may not be commonly
 # available on POSIX systems, so don't bother attempting to compile them here.
diff --git a/docs/examples/parseurl.c b/docs/examples/parseurl.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ee427768f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/examples/parseurl.c
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+/***************************************************************************
+ *                                  _   _ ____  _
+ *  Project                     ___| | | |  _ \| |
+ *                             / __| | | | |_) | |
+ *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
+ *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2018, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ *
+ * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
+ * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
+ * are also available at https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html.
+ *
+ * You may opt to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute and/or sell
+ * copies of the Software, and permit persons to whom the Software is
+ * furnished to do so, under the terms of the COPYING file.
+ *
+ * This software is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.
+ *
+ ***************************************************************************/
+/* <DESC>
+ * Basic URL API use.
+ * </DESC>
+ */
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <curl/curl.h>
+
+#if !CURL_AT_LEAST_VERSION(7, 62, 0)
+#error "this example requires curl 7.62.0 or later"
+#endif
+
+int main(void)
+{
+  CURLU *h;
+  CURLUcode uc;
+  char *host;
+  char *path;
+
+  h = curl_url(); /* get a handle to work with */
+  if(!h)
+    return 1;
+
+  /* parse a full URL */
+  uc = curl_url_set(h, CURLUPART_URL, "http://example.com/path/index.html", 0);
+  if(uc)
+    goto fail;
+
+  /* extract host name from the parsed URL */
+  uc = curl_url_get(h, CURLUPART_HOST, &host, 0);
+  if(!uc) {
+    printf("Host name: %s\n", host);
+    curl_free(host);
+  }
+
+  /* extract the path from the parsed URL */
+  uc = curl_url_get(h, CURLUPART_PATH, &path, 0);
+  if(!uc) {
+    printf("Path: %s\n", path);
+    curl_free(path);
+  }
+
+  /* redirect with a relative URL */
+  uc = curl_url_set(h, CURLUPART_URL, "../another/second.html", 0);
+  if(uc)
+    goto fail;
+
+  /* extract the new, updated path */
+  uc = curl_url_get(h, CURLUPART_PATH, &path, 0);
+  if(!uc) {
+    printf("Path: %s\n", path);
+    curl_free(path);
+  }
+
+  fail:
+  curl_url_cleanup(h); /* free url handle */
+  return 0;
+}