Returning the "base" URL of a website

[brian515]

Hi all,

I want to try to return a web site's favicon file. I thought this should be relatively easy, but I guess not. I'm stuck trying to figure out how to return the "base" URL. What I mean is, for example, I don't want to return url=http://www.apple.com/iphone, I need to return =http://www.apple.com instead. I can't find an easy way to do this though, because there is no defined length, and all the different extensions (.com, .org, .net, .biz..., not to mention one for every country ) make it extremely difficult to parse out what I want from the URL.

How would I go about doing this?

Thanks for your help in advance!

[Bertrand21]

you could split the url string by the "/" so it would split http://www.google.com/here

so use this code:

NSString *split2= @"http://www.google.com/here";
NSArray* split = [string2 componentsSeparatedByString:@"/"];
	NSString* webURL = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",[split objectAtIndex:2]];

and that brings back www.google.com

[brian515]

Originally Posted by Bertrand21

you could split the url string by the "/" so it would split http://www.google.com/here

so use this code:

NSString *split2= @"http://www.google.com/here";
NSArray* split = [string2 componentsSeparatedByString:@"/"];
	NSString* webURL = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",[split objectAtIndex:2]];

and that brings back Google

Awesome, thanks!

Another way I found to do it is that NSURL contains a path method. I can get the path, and subtract it from the full URL, and I am left with what I want.