url.parse outputs incorrect url object

[pawanrawal]

• Version: 4.3.0
• Platform: Darwin Apples-MacBook-Pro-2.local 14.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 14.5.0: Tue Sep 1 21:23:09 PDT 2015; root:xnu-2782.50.1~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

When I try to parse a url which has a port but no protocol, node returns protocol as the host name as part of the url object.

url.parse('localhost:8080/api/user') returns

{
  protocol: 'localhost:',
  slashes: null,
  auth: null,
  host: '8080',
  port: null,
  hostname: '8080',
  hash: null,
  search: null,
  query: null,
  pathname: '/api/user',
  path: '/api/user',
  href: 'localhost:8080/api/user'
}

Host, protocol and port all here messed up here.

[ChALkeR]

No, it's completely valid.

[ChALkeR]

Url does not not necessary have http or https protocol.

In A:B/C/D, A: is the protocol, B is the host, /C/D/ is the path.

[williamkapke]

@pawanrawal, I think a better way to explain might be:

According to RFC 2396, section 3.2. Authority Component:

The authority component is preceded by a double slash "//" and is terminated by the next slash "/", question-mark "?", or by the end of the URI.

...meaning it requires // to start the authority part- so in your example, it is considered the scheme.