In java, what's the best way to read a url and split it into its parts?

Question

Firstly, I am aware that there are other posts similar, but since mine is using a URL and I am not always sure what my delimiter will be, I feel that I am alright posting my

Answer 1

The URL class pretty much does this, look at the tutorial. For example, given this URL:

http://example.com:80/docs/books/tutorial/index.html?name=networking#DOWNLOADING

This is the kind of information you can expect to obtain:

protocol = http
authority = example.com:80
host = example.com
port = 80
path = /docs/books/tutorial/index.html
query = name=networking
filename = /docs/books/tutorial/index.html?name=networking
ref = DOWNLOADING