Added a URI parser that should be standards conformant. (It can certainly

handle something as convoluted as

  ftp://joe:secret@insecure.org:8081/hidden/path/to?what=is#this

src/include/gpxe/uri.h

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+#ifndef _GPXE_URI_H
+#define _GPXE_URI_H
+
+/** @file
+ *
+ * Uniform Resource Identifiers
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+/** A Uniform Resource Identifier
+ *
+ * Terminology for this data structure is as per uri(7), except that
+ * "path" is defined to include the leading '/' for an absolute path.
+ *
+ * Note that all fields within a URI are optional and may be NULL.
+ *
+ * Some examples are probably helpful:
+ *
+ *   http://www.etherboot.org/wiki :
+ *
+ *   scheme = "http", host = "www.etherboot.org", path = "/wiki"
+ *
+ *   /var/lib/tftpboot :
+ *
+ *   path = "/var/lib/tftpboot"
+ *
+ *   mailto:bob@nowhere.com :
+ *
+ *   scheme = "mailto", opaque = "bob@nowhere.com"
+ *
+ *   ftp://joe:secret@insecure.org:8081/hidden/path/to?what=is#this
+ *
+ *   scheme = "ftp", user = "joe", password = "secret",
+ *   host = "insecure.org", port = "8081", path = "/hidden/path/to",
+ *   query = "what=is", fragment = "this"
+ */
+struct uri {
+	/** Scheme */
+	const char *scheme;
+	/** Opaque part */
+	const char *opaque;
+	/** User name */
+	const char *user;
+	/** Password */
+	const char *password;
+	/** Host name */
+	const char *host;
+	/** Port number */
+	const char *port;
+	/** Path */
+	const char *path;
+	/** Query */
+	const char *query;
+	/** Fragment */
+	const char *fragment;
+};
+
+/**
+ * URI is an absolute URI
+ *
+ * @v uri			URI
+ * @ret is_absolute		URI is absolute
+ *
+ * An absolute URI begins with a scheme, e.g. "http:" or "mailto:".
+ * Note that this is a separate concept from a URI with an absolute
+ * path.
+ */
+static inline int uri_is_absolute ( struct uri *uri ) {
+	return ( uri->scheme != NULL );
+}
+
+/**
+ * URI has an absolute path
+ *
+ * @v uri			URI
+ * @ret has_absolute_path	URI has an absolute path
+ *
+ * An absolute path begins with a '/'.  Note that this is a separate
+ * concept from an absolute URI.  Note also that a URI may not have a
+ * path at all.
+ */
+static inline int uri_has_absolute_path ( struct uri *uri ) {
+	return ( uri->path && ( uri->path[0] == '/' ) );
+}
+
+/**
+ * URI has a relative path
+ *
+ * @v uri			URI
+ * @ret has_relative_path	URI has a relative path
+ *
+ * An relative path begins with something other than a '/'.  Note that
+ * this is a separate concept from a relative URI.  Note also that a
+ * URI may not have a path at all.
+ */
+static inline int uri_has_relative_path ( struct uri *uri ) {
+	return ( uri->path && ( uri->path[0] != '/' ) );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Free URI structure
+ *
+ * @v uri		URI
+ *
+ * Frees all the dynamically-allocated storage used by the URI
+ * structure.
+ */
+static inline void free_uri ( struct uri *uri ) {
+	free ( uri );
+}
+
+extern struct uri * parse_uri ( const char *uri_string );
+
+#endif /* _GPXE_URI_H */