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
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Answer 1

Libcurl now has curl_url_get() function that can extract host, path, etc.

Example code: https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/parseurl.html

/* 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);
}