newbie: HTTP and URIs

Hi,

I'm quite new to this, so please excuse trivial questions:

- Is there any function (int the .net framework) that gives me an
enumeration of all URIs in a http stream (passed as e.g. a string)? If not,
how could I achieve such a thing?

- Really trivial, but to make sure: What does the string "/.../" in an URL
mean? I'd suspect some directory operation, but I dunno exactly...

- I'm currently using the HttpUtility.UrlDecode() function to decode some
http URIs and one thing stroke me in particular: The string
[...]"test.exe?/c+xtsr" is decoded to "test.exe?/c xtsr", missing the "+".
When I use the System.Uri class for the decoding the "+" remains...Does
anyone know why?

Thanks for reading till end and thanks in advance

PeterHi Peter,

No question is trivial if you don't know the answer to it! :)

> - Is there any function (int the .net framework) that gives me an
> enumeration of all URIs in a http stream (passed as e.g. a string)? If
> not,
> how could I achieve such a thing?

Not sure what you mean by this. You can find URLs in an HTML document by
using Regular Expressions. The HTML document is a string.

> - Really trivial, but to make sure: What does the string "/.../" in an
> URL
> mean? I'd suspect some directory operation, but I dunno exactly...

Is that the exact string you saw in a URL? I've never seen it before.

The following link to the W3C should help":

http://www.gbiv.com/protocols/uri/rfc/rfc3986.html

> - I'm currently using the HttpUtility.UrlDecode() function to decode some
> http URIs and one thing stroke me in particular: The string
> [...]"test.exe?/c+xtsr" is decoded to "test.exe?/c xtsr", missing the "+".
> When I use the System.Uri class for the decoding the "+" remains...Does
> anyone know why?

The "+" character is a URL-Encoding for a space (which is an illegal URL
character).

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
What You Seek Is What You Get.

"Peter Schmitz" <PeterSchmitz@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I'm quite new to this, so please excuse trivial questions:
> - Is there any function (int the .net framework) that gives me an
> enumeration of all URIs in a http stream (passed as e.g. a string)? If
> not,
> how could I achieve such a thing?
> - Really trivial, but to make sure: What does the string "/.../" in an
> URL
> mean? I'd suspect some directory operation, but I dunno exactly...
> - I'm currently using the HttpUtility.UrlDecode() function to decode some
> http URIs and one thing stroke me in particular: The string
> [...]"test.exe?/c+xtsr" is decoded to "test.exe?/c xtsr", missing the "+".
> When I use the System.Uri class for the decoding the "+" remains...Does
> anyone know why?
> Thanks for reading till end and thanks in advance
> Peter