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[cerberus_gr]

Hello,

I have a code which gets all the links from a webpage. The formats could be:

1) http://www.domain/folder/file.htm
2) www.domain/folder/file.htm
3) http://domain/folder/file.htm
4) /folder/file.htm
5) file.hmt (relative)

I want to create a procedure which takes as parameters the link and the link from the html which parsed and returns the link in the format:

1) http://domain/folder/file.htm or
2) http://www.domain/folder/file.htm


Example:

[SaPrOuZy]

try to be clearer...

[cerberus_gr]

Let's try again

I have a webpage in html format with 100 links inside. The links don't have the same format . The formats of the links for the file file.htm are:

1) <a href="http://www.domain/folder/file.htm">
2) <a href="www.domain/folder/file.htm">
3) <a href="http://domain/folder/file.htm">
4) <a href="/folder/file.htm">
5) <a href="file.htm"> (relative)


I have written a code which extracts all the links from the webpage and adds them to a list. So, I have a list like the following:

[user]

Your request is weird.

1) "www.domain" != "domain"
2) links not starting with a protocol are relative, so the absolute version of "www.domain" would be "http://base.href/www.domain"
3) your last example doesn't make any sense to me at all
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Have you ever read "The Manual"?

[cerberus_gr]

Most of times www.domain is the same with domain, a the www is the default subdomain.

You are correct about 2, I didn't think like this.


I 'll describe you what exactly I want to do:

I want to create a package which extracts data from webpages. I'm going to give it a initial webpage and the script is going to follow every page and check for data inside. I'll have a list with all links that script found, and i'm going to visit every one.

My problem is that a lot of pages have links in different format. It could be a page which has 2 same links ("http://domain/hello.htm" and "/hello.htm") and I want my code to be clever to understand that these links are the same.

That's why I want to add links to the list with format "http://(subdomain.)domain/file.htm" in order to could check if a link already exists to the list and don't loose time to parse it again.

So, I need a procedure which is going to return a link in this format (like a web browser does with links)