I've been doing some operations on URLs in Javascript where I needed to extract different parts from a string URL, such as the domain, port, and most importantly the parameter values. I really wished there was some function which takes a string URL and breaks it down into an ...

At many instances when doing Ajax requests in Javascript, a serialize function comes in handy for creating a string in standard URL-encoded notation for the request parameters. The most widely used serialize function is that of jQuery which works great on forms. But what if the request is not based ...