NAME

Alvis::URLs - URL and hash standardisation utilities.

SYNOPSIS

$Alvis::URLs::keepfrag = 0; # set to keep fragment, default removes
$cleanurl = &Alvis::URLs::CleanURL($url);
$Alvis::URLs::nocase = 0;   # set to convert everything to lowercase
$Alvis::URLs::noclean = 0;  # set to disable use of URI cleaning
$standardurl = &Alvis::URLs::StandardURL($url);

DESCRIPTION

Provides an MD5 hashing interface, as well as simple standards for URL cleaning based on the URI library.

METHODS

easyhash32()

$myhash = &easyhash32($text);

Return 32-bit unsigned part of the MD5 hash as an integer.

easyhash64char()

$myhash = &easyhash32($text);

Return 64-bit unsigned part of an MD5 hash as a 16 character string in hexadecimal.

CleanURL()

$cleanurl = &Alvis::URLs::CleanURL($url);

Use the URI library to cleanup the format of the URL.

StandardURL()

$standardurl = &Alvis::URLs::StandardURL($url);

Standardise the format of the URL, including cleaning above if switches dictate.

SEE ALSO

URI(3).

AUTHOR

Wray Buntine, <wray.buntine@hiit.fi>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2006 by Wray Buntine

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.4 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.