uri is a Tcllib module for parsing and manipulating URIs.
uri::split breaks a URI up into its component parts.
The parts identified depend on the schemes supported. For instance, for ftp, the pieces identified are
The file protocol is supported
The data protocol is not yet supported.
LV: What does "doesn't yet support" mean?
AK: That the code does not know to handle such urls (split/join). There are no regexp patterns either.
LV: but I see this behavior with tcl8.4 and tcllib 1.0:
% package require uri 1.0 % set name "file://home/lwv26/myfile.txt" file://home/lwv26/myfile.txt % uri::split $name path /lwv26/myfile.txt scheme file host home
So it LOOKS like file is supported.
The new Tcl 8.4a4 VFS layer by Vince Darley simplifies this work. See the tclvfs extension for example code which opens http, ftp, zip, and more - using the "blah:..." notation.
HaO 2013-05-03 I tried to use 'uri::canonicalize' to implement a smart url completer, e.g. to say transform "test.de" to "http://test.de/ ".
% package require uri 1.2.2 % uri::canonicalize test.de http:///test.de
So there are 3 slashes instead of two and no trailing slash. This is not what I intended.
The reason is, that 'uri::canonicalize' internally uses 'uri::split' and 'uri::join'' and the first interprets the given data as a path and not as a host:
% ::uri::split test.de
fragment {} port {} path test.de scheme http host {} query {}AK: The urn handler was added to tcllib after the 1.1.0 release