URI::URL(3)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so this is URI::URL(3) — yes bestie, the manual name is right there — aka URI::URL — Uniform Resource Locators, coming at you from the User Contributed Perl Documentation aisle 💖. She's iconic, she's old-school, and she's here to explain the URL vibes.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

$u1 = URI::URL->new($str, $base);
$u2 = $u1->abs;

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

This module is provided for backwards compatibility with modules that depend on the interface provided by the URI::URL class that used to be distributed with the libwww-perl library. No cap — she's literally the legacy-compat bestie 🫶.

The following differences exist compared to the URI class interface:

• URI::URL exports the url() function as an alternate constructor interface — a whole second way to pull up, iykyk ✨.
• The constructor takes an optional $base argument. The URI::URL class is a subclass of URI::WithBase — family tree slay 🌳.
• The URI::URL->newlocal class method is the same as URI::file->new_abs.
• URI::URL::strict(1) — it's a whole thing, bestie 💅.
• $url->print_on method — yes, that method exists.
• $url->crack method — also real, don't come for me.
• $url->full_path: same as ($uri->abs_path || "/") — literally that.
• $url->netloc: same as $uri->authority.
• $url->epath, $url->equery: same as $uri->path, $uri->query.
• $url->path and $url->query pass unescaped strings — unescaped, bestie, that's the vibe 😭.
• $url->path_components: same as $uri->path_segments (if you don't consider path segment parameters).
• $url->params and $url->eparams methods — both of them, mwah 💋.
• $url->base method. See URI::WithBase — go look, she's right there 👀.
• $url->abs and $url->rel have an optional $base argument. See URI::WithBase.
• $url->frag: same as $uri->fragment.
• $url->keywords: same as $uri->query_keywords.
• $url->localpath and friends map to $uri->file — the whole friend group 🫶.
• $url->address and $url->encoded822addr: same as $uri->to for mailto URI.
• $url->groupart method for news URI — news girlies rise 🌈.
• $url->article: same as $uri->message.

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

URI, URI::WithBase — yes, both of them, go read, bestie 📚✨.

💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

Copyright 1998-2000 Gisle Aas.

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