Get current URL with jQuery?

Question

I am using jQuery. How do I get the path of the current URL and assign it to a variable?

Example URL:

http://localhost/menuname.de?foo=bar&nu         


        

Answer 1

java-script provides many methods to retrieve current URL which is displayed in browser's address bar.

Test URL :

http://
stackoverflow.com/questions/5515310/get-current-url-with-jquery/32942762
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rq=1&page=2&tab=active&answertab=votes
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32942762

resourceAddress.hash();
console.log('URL Object ', webAddress);
console.log('Parameters ', param_values);

Function:

var webAddress = {};
var param_values = {};
var protocol = '';
var resourceAddress = {

    fullAddress : function () {
        var addressBar = window.location.href;
        if ( addressBar != '' && addressBar != 'undefined') {
            webAddress[ 'href' ] = addressBar;
        }
    },
    protocol_identifier : function () { resourceAddress.fullAddress();

        protocol = window.location.protocol.replace(':', '');
        if ( protocol != '' && protocol != 'undefined') {
            webAddress[ 'protocol' ] = protocol;
        }
    },
    domain : function () {      resourceAddress.protocol_identifier();

        var domain = window.location.hostname;
        if ( domain != '' && domain != 'undefined' && typeOfVar(domain) === 'string') {
            webAddress[ 'domain' ] = domain;
            var port = window.location.port;
            if ( (port == '' || port == 'undefined') && typeOfVar(port) === 'string') {
                if(protocol == 'http') port = '80';
                if(protocol == 'https') port = '443';           
            }
            webAddress[ 'port' ] = port;
        }
    },
    pathname : function () {        resourceAddress.domain();

        var resourcePath = window.location.pathname;
        if ( resourcePath != '' && resourcePath != 'undefined') {
            webAddress[ 'resourcePath' ] = resourcePath;
        }
    },
    params : function () {      resourceAddress.pathname();

        var v_args = location.search.substring(1).split("&");

        if ( v_args != '' && v_args != 'undefined')
        for (var i = 0; i < v_args.length; i++) {
            var pair = v_args[i].split("=");

            if ( typeOfVar( pair ) === 'array' ) {
                param_values[ decodeURIComponent( pair[0] ) ] = decodeURIComponent( pair[1] );
            }
        }
        webAddress[ 'params' ] = param_values;
    },
    hash : function () {        resourceAddress.params();

        var fragment = window.location.hash.substring(1);
        if ( fragment != '' && fragment != 'undefined')
            webAddress[ 'hash' ] = fragment;        
    }
};
function typeOfVar (obj) {
      return {}.toString.call(obj).split(' ')[1].slice(0, -1).toLowerCase();
}

• protocol « Web-browsers use Internet Protocol by following some rules for communication between WebHosted Applications and Web Client(Browser). (http = 80, https (SSL) = 443, ftp = 21, etc.)

EX: With default port numbers

//:/
https://en.wikipedia.org:443/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
http://stackoverflow.com:80/

• (//) « Host is the name given to an end-point(machine on which resource lives) on the Internet. www.stackoverflow.com - DNS IP Address of an Application (OR) localhost:8080 - localhost

Domain names are which you register by the rules and procedures of the Domain Name System(DNS) tree. DNS servers of someone who manages your domain with IP-Address for addressing purposes. In DNS server hierarchy the Root name of an stackoverlfow.com is com.

gTLDs      - com « stackoverflow (OR) in « co « google

Local system you have to maintain domain's which are not PUBLIC in Host Files. localhost.yash.com « localhsot - subdomain(web-server), yash.com - maindomain(Proxy-Server). myLocalApplication.com 172.89.23.777

• (/) « The path gives info about the specific resource within the host that the Web client wants to access
• (?) « An optional query is to pass a sequence of attribute–value pairs separated by a delimiter(&).
• (#) « An optional fragment is often an id attribute of a specific element, and web browsers will scroll this element into view.

If parameter has an Epoch ?date=1467708674 then use.

var epochDate = 1467708674; var date = new Date( epochDate );

URL

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Authentication url with username:password, If usernaem/password contains @ symbol
like:

Username = `my_email@gmail`
Password = `Yash@777`

then You need to URL encode the @ as %40. ^Refer...

http://my_email%40gmail.com:Yash%40777@www.my_site.com

encodeURI() (vs) encodeURIComponent() example

var testURL = "http:my_email@gmail:Yash777@//stackoverflow.com?tab=active&page=1#32942762";

var Uri = "/:@?&=,#", UriComponent = "$;+", Unescaped = "(-_.!~*')"; // Fixed
var encodeURI_Str = encodeURI(Uri) +' '+ encodeURI( UriComponent ) +' '+ encodeURI(Unescaped);
var encodeURIComponent_Str =  encodeURIComponent( Uri ) +' '+ encodeURIComponent( UriComponent ) +' '+ encodeURIComponent( Unescaped );
console.log(encodeURI_Str, '\n', encodeURIComponent_Str);
/*
 /:@?&=,# +$; (-_.!~*') 
 %2F%3A%40%3F%26%3D%2C%23 %2B%24%3B (-_.!~*')
*/