Best ways of parsing a URL using C?

Question

I have a URL like this:

http://192.168.0.1:8080/servlet/rece

I want to parse the URL to get the values:

IP: 192.168.0.1
Port: 8080
page:  /servlet/rece

How do I do that?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/726122/best-ways-of-parsing-a-url-using-c

Answer 1

Write a custom parser or use one of the string replace functions to replace the separator ':' and then use sscanf().