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Other than that, it is often trial and error until you master the commands. One suggestion I often make is to try to solve the problem in small parts with lots of 'echo' commands to track your progress. Once you resolve and know your data is good, you can then delete out all of the lines of 'echo's. This is especially important as you learn how to use new commands.
And of course, use this site as a reference. Hopefully you will become comfortable enough so that you may also be able to contribute and help answer questions for others.
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ns_skipurl
Ns_Url(3aolserver) AOLserver Library Procedures Ns_Url(3aolserver)
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NAME
Ns_AbsoluteUrl, Ns_ParseUrl, Ns_RelativeUrl, Ns_SkipUrl - URL manipulation routines
SYNOPSIS
#include "ns.h"
int
Ns_AbsoluteUrl(Ns_DString *pds, char *url, char *baseurl)
int
Ns_ParseUrl(char *url, char **pprotocol, char **phost,
char **pport, char **ppath, char **ptail)
char *
Ns_RelativeUrl(char *url, char *location)
char *
Ns_SkipUrl(Ns_Request *request, int n)
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DESCRIPTION
Ns_AbsoluteUrl(pds, url, baseurl)
Construct an URL based on baseurl but with as many parts of the incomplete url as possible. Return NS_OK or NS_ERROR.
Ns_ParseUrl(url, pprotocol, phost, pport, ppath, ptail)
Parse a URL into its component parts. Pointers to the protocol, host, port, path, and "tail" (last path element) will be set by ref-
erence in the passed-in pointers. The passed-in url will be modified.
Ns_RelativeUrl(url, location)
If the url passed in is for this server, then the initial part of the URL is stripped off. e.g., on a server whose location is
http://www.foo.com, Ns_RelativeUrl of "http://www.foo.com/hello" will return "/hello". Returns a pointer to the beginning of the
relative url in the passed-in url, or NULL if error. Will set errno on error.
Ns_SkipUrl(request, n)
Return a pointer n elements into the request's url.
SEE ALSO
nsd(1), info(n)
KEYWORDS
AOLserver 4.0 Ns_Url(3aolserver)