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

This C gist could be useful. It implements a pure C solution with sscanf.

https://github.com/luismartingil/per.scripts/tree/master/c_parse_http_url

It uses

// Parsing the tmp_source char*
if (sscanf(tmp_source, "http://%99[^:]:%i/%199[^\n]", ip, &port, page) == 3) { succ_parsing = 1;}
else if (sscanf(tmp_source, "http://%99[^/]/%199[^\n]", ip, page) == 2) { succ_parsing = 1;}
else if (sscanf(tmp_source, "http://%99[^:]:%i[^\n]", ip, &port) == 2) { succ_parsing = 1;}
else if (sscanf(tmp_source, "http://%99[^\n]", ip) == 1) { succ_parsing = 1;}
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