PowerBuilder

CanonicalizeUrl

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The CanonicalizeUrl method is a utility function that canonicalizes a URL into a standard form to avoid duplicates. For example, "http://www.chilkatsoft.com/" and "http://www.chilkatsoft.com/default.asp" are the same URL. PowerBuilder

integer li_rc
oleobject loo_Spider

loo_Spider = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Spider.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Spider")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Spider
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if

// Does a DNS lookup to find the default domain, which may or may not include the "www." depending on the DNS results.
// Also domain names are converted to lowercase:
Write-Debug loo_Spider.CanonicalizeUrl("http://www.ChilkatSoft.com/")

// CanonicalizeUrl will drop the HTML fragment:
Write-Debug loo_Spider.CanonicalizeUrl("http://www.chilkatsoft.com/purchase2.asp#buyZip")

// If a username/password is in the URL, it gets dropped:
Write-Debug loo_Spider.CanonicalizeUrl("http://username:password@www.chilkatsoft.com/purchase2.asp#buyZip")

// Port 80 and 443 are dropped:
Write-Debug loo_Spider.CanonicalizeUrl("http://www.chilkatsoft.com:80/purchase2.asp")
Write-Debug loo_Spider.CanonicalizeUrl("https://www.paypal.com:443/")

// Removes default pages:
// default.asp, index.html, index.htm, default.html, index.htm, default.htm
// index.php, index.asp, default.php, .cfm, .aspx, ,php3, .pl, .cgi, .txt, .shtml, .phtml
Write-Debug loo_Spider.CanonicalizeUrl("http://www.chilkatsoft.com/index.asp")
Write-Debug loo_Spider.CanonicalizeUrl("http://www.chilkatsoft.com/index.asp")
Write-Debug loo_Spider.CanonicalizeUrl("http://www.chilkatsoft.com/index.php")
Write-Debug loo_Spider.CanonicalizeUrl("http://www.chilkatsoft.com/index.pl")
Write-Debug loo_Spider.CanonicalizeUrl("http://www.chilkatsoft.com/index.htm")

// Output:
// http://chilkatsoft.com/
// http://chilkatsoft.com/purchase2.asp
// http://chilkatsoft.com/purchase2.asp
// http://chilkatsoft.com/purchase2.asp
// https://www.paypal.com/
// http://chilkatsoft.com/
// http://chilkatsoft.com/
// http://chilkatsoft.com/
// http://chilkatsoft.com/
// http://chilkatsoft.com


destroy loo_Spider