https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/url-parsing/ Recent content in Url-Parsing on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-06-21-url-parsing-libraries-ada-uriparser-llhttp-rust-url/ Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-06-21-url-parsing-libraries-ada-uriparser-llhttp-rust-url/ <h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>Every web application, API client, and HTTP server needs to parse URLs. Whether you are extracting query parameters, validating user input, or routing requests, a fast and standards-compliant URL parser is essential infrastructure. While it is tempting to roll your own regex-based parser, the URL specification (WHATWG URL Standard and RFC 3986) has enough edge cases to fill a book — percent-encoding, IPv6 literals, Unicode normalization, and relative resolution are just the beginning.</p>