webBrowser/url_manipulation.c

#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

char* url_to_proto(char* url) {
        size_t length = strlen(url);
	int sentinel = 0;
	char* to_return = malloc(sizeof(char) * 10);
	for (int i=0;i<length;i++) {
		if (*(url + (sizeof(char) * i)) == ':') { /* If the character is ':' ...*/
			sentinel = i; /* ...Then we stop scanning the string */
		}
	}
	strncpy(to_return,url,sentinel);
	return to_return;
}

char* url_to_hostname(char* url) {
	/* This function relies on a hack-y assumption: that, given a string
	that represents a URL (e.g. https://www.example.com/index.html), the length of the host portion 
	of the address is the distance between the second slash (:/'/') and the third ('/'index.html). */

	size_t length = strlen(url);
	char* protocol = url_to_proto(url);

        char* to_return = malloc(sizeof(char) * 256);


	/* This is a very roundabout way of saying that, starting from a certain point in the
	URL (length of protocol string + 3), we are copying the rest of the string into another
	substring. */
	strncpy(to_return,url+(strlen(protocol) + 3),(length - (strlen(protocol) + 3)));

		
	
}

char* url_to_path(char* url) {
	/* Assumption: The path starts from the third slash to the end of the string. */
	

}