The readme should include a pronunciation guide for the name. tru-rul? tee-ru-rul?
You pronnounce it like curl, but changing how you pronounce "c" by how you pronounce "tr".
New tool from curl creator – trurl – for URL parsing and manipulation
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Re: New tool from curl creator – trurl – for URL parsing and manipulation
#22Pardone my ignorance, serious question: Why is this a big deal? I'm probably underestimting the work needed, but it doesn't look like a hard thing to write. What am I missing?
Over the years, curl itself has had 9 CVEs relating to handling URLs [0] so this is most definitely not a trivial piece of code to write. The basic case is easy, yes. Getting everything in the spec right and then some is hard. [0] https://curl.se/docs/security.html
is it somehow better than the stuff available in mainstream languages (go net/url, Python yarl, etc)?
Or is it just that this is focused on command-line usage
Re: New tool from curl creator – trurl – for URL parsing and manipulation
#23Pardone my ignorance, serious question: Why is this a big deal? I'm probably underestimting the work needed, but it doesn't look like a hard thing to write. What am I missing?
I will be using this at work tomorrow. I currently parse out this stuff using a flaky little bit of python I cooked up myself and it gives me no end of grief when scaled. So many awful edge cases. The author wrote curl, so I know it's going to do what it says it does well. That's why it's getting love. It's a rock star dev putting out open source code many of us will absolutely be using regularly. Way classier than y…
Why not use urllib.parse?
Re: New tool from curl creator – trurl – for URL parsing and manipulation
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I will be using this at work tomorrow. I currently parse out this stuff using a flaky little bit of python I cooked up myself and it gives me no end of grief when scaled. So many awful edge cases. The author wrote curl, so I know it's going to do what it says it does well. That's why it's getting love. It's a rock star dev putting out open source code many of us will absolutely be using regularly. Way classier than y…
Why not use urllib.parse?
Hah, I may well do! I think the other thing here is me not realising I needed something till I saw it :-)
Re: New tool from curl creator – trurl – for URL parsing and manipulation
#25Only two unit tests?
Re: New tool from curl creator – trurl – for URL parsing and manipulation
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given what it does, and to avoid confusion with perl, "transform url" seems more reasonable. Though I probably would have gone with "turl" so it's easier to pronounce.
It seems like a nod to the “tr” command.
Yup, I guessed the same, and indeed it explicitly states so in the blog post linked by another commenter.
> trurl is a tool in a similar spirit of tr but for URLs. Here, tr stands for translate or transpose.
Re: New tool from curl creator – trurl – for URL parsing and manipulation
#27Might be more useful to link to the blog post: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/04/03/introducing-trurl/
Previously posted:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35419573 - 22 points, 2 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35426050 - 5 points, 0 comments
Re: New tool from curl creator – trurl – for URL parsing and manipulation
#28Pretty dang cool, but I might have missed a feature: can trurl do multiple manipulations on a single url, as opposed to a single manipulation on multiple urls (which the blog post says is supported)? For example, you want to apply a sequence of predefined normalization steps, such as removing the user part, converting http to https, etc etc. You put these steps in a file and then invoke trurl with that file and point…
I think it can do what you're suggesting, if I'm understanding correctly:
> $ trurl --url https://example.com --set path=/abc/123 --set scheme=ftp --set host=foo.bar
> $ ftp://foo.bar/abc/123
Re: New tool from curl creator – trurl – for URL parsing and manipulation
#29Might be more useful to link to the blog post: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/04/03/introducing-trurl/
Ok, we've changed the URL to that from https://github.com/curl/trurl. Thanks!
Re: New tool from curl creator – trurl – for URL parsing and manipulation
#30that an ... interesting ... decsion to put inputs before -- and commands/options after -- Most of the tools assume opposite default (like xargs for example). Sure, you can specify a different order but why make life harder for no reason?
Usage: " PROGNAME " [options] [URL]
But you can put options wherever you want, they are identified by the leading '-' char.