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Contains an object for parsing a URL into it's various pieces.  

You can use this to either parse the URL and then be able to extract
any particular piece of the URL.  Or, you can parse the URL, change
one piece (like a query parameter) and then generate the new URL.

For a sample URL:
http://www.example.com:8001/log/index.html?parm=foo#start

// main interface
var u = new parseURL(url);

// returns the last part of the domain
u.getFinalDomain();			// example.com

// returns the part of the domain in front of the subdomain
// without trailing dot
u.getSubDomain();			// www

// returns the entire URL by putting all the pieces back together again
u.getURL();

// normally called by the constructor to parse a new URL into the instance variables
u.parse(url);

When you call .parse(url), it reinitializes the URL object and fills 
all instance variables with new data from the new url - no carryover 
from any previous url

// Instance variables after parsing a URL
// Any of these can be modified and then call .getURL() to get the new URL

.protocol		
	Example: "http"

.port
	Example: "8001"
	Note: this is a string, not a number

.domain
	Example: "www.example.com"
	Note: the full domain and sub-domain that was present in the URL

.path
	Example: "/log/index.html"
	Note: everything after domain and before query or hash
	.path is either empty or always starts with a /
												
.pathParts
	Example: ["log", "index.html"]
	read-only - generated URL is made from .path, not from pathParts

.filename
	Example: "index.html"
	Note: last element of the path (whether it is a filename or not)

.filebase
	Example: "index"
	Note: read-only - generated URL is made from .filename

.extension
	Example: "html"
	Note: read-only - generated URL is made from .filename

.query
	Example: "parm=foo"
	Note: read-only - generated URL is made from .queryObject

.queryObject
	Example: {"parm": "foo"}
	Note: unordered, does not support multiple parameters with the same name

.hash
	Example: "start"

It is assumed that any URL given to the object either in the constructor or .parse() is
properly URI encoded.

All instance variables are URI decoded.

If you change any instance variables, you must set them in unencoded form (otherwise they will get
encoded twice when you generate a URL).

When getURL() is called and a new URL is constructed, all components are properly URI encoded.


One very useful thing to do with this is to access or change query parameters
because this code handles all the parsing and generation of the query parameters
including proper URI encoding.

var u = new parseURL(url);
u.queryObject["parm"] = "hello";
var newUrl = u.getURL();