glenscott/url-normalizer

Syntax based normalization of URL's

1.4.0 2015-06-11 16:06 UTC

Requires

• php: >=5.3.0
• ext-mbstring: *

MIT

• Glen Scott

README

This normalizes URI's based on the specification RFC 3986 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986

Example usage

require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';

$url = 'eXAMPLE://a/./b/../b/%63/%7bfoo%7d';
$un = new URL\Normalizer( $url );
echo $un->normalize();

// Result: 'example://a/b/c/%7Bfoo%7D'

The normalization process preserves semantics

So, for example, the following URL's are all equivalent.

• HTTP://www.Example.com/ and http://www.example.com/
• http://www.example.com/a%c2%b1b and http://www.example.com/a%C2%B1b
• http://www.example.com/%7Eusername/ and http://www.example.com/~username/
• http://www.example.com and http://www.example.com/
• http://www.example.com:80/bar.html and http://www.example.com/bar.html
• http://www.example.com/../a/b/../c/./d.html and http://www.example.com/a/c/d.html
• http://www.example.com/?array[key]=value and http://www.example.com/?array%5Bkey%5D=value

Normalizations performed

1. Converting the scheme and host to lower case
2. Capitalizing letters in escape sequences
3. Decoding percent-encoded octets of unreserved characters
4. Adding trailing /
5. Removing the default port
6. Removing dot-segments

For more information about these normalizations, please see the following Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_normalization#Normalizations_that_Preserve_Semantics

For license information, please see LICENSE file.

Options

Two options are available when normalizing URLs which are disabled by default:

1. Remove empty delimiters. Enabling this option would normalize http://www.example.com/? to http://www.example.com/ Currently, only the query string delimiter (?) is supported by this option.
2. Sort query parameters. Enabling this option sorts the query parameters by key alphabetically. For example, http://www.example.com/?c=3&b=2&a=1 becomes http://www.example.com/?a=1&b=2&c=3

TODO

Add further scheme-based normalization steps, as detailed in section 6.2.3 of the RFC.