#require "addressable/uri"
#
#module Addressable
#  class URI
#    def self.parse(uri)
#
#      # If we were given nil, return nil.
#      return nil unless uri
#      # If a URI object is passed, just return itself.
#      return uri.dup if uri.kind_of?(self)
#
#      # If a URI object of the Ruby standard library variety is passed,
#      # convert it to a string, then parse the string.
#      # We do the check this way because we don't want to accidentally
#      # cause a missing constant exception to be thrown.
#      if uri.class.name =~ /^URI\b/
#        uri = uri.to_s
#      end
#
#      # Otherwise, convert to a String
#      begin
#        uri = uri.to_str
#      rescue TypeError, NoMethodError
#        raise TypeError, "Can't convert #{uri.class} into String."
#      end if not uri.is_a? String
#
#      # This Regexp supplied as an example in RFC 3986, and it works great.
#      scan = uri.scan(URIREGEX)
#      fragments = scan[0]
#      scheme = fragments[1]
#      authority = fragments[3]
#      path = fragments[4]
#      query = fragments[6]
#      fragment = fragments[8]
#      user = nil
#      password = nil
#      host = nil
#      port = nil
#      database = nil
#      if authority != nil
#        # The Regexp above doesn't split apart the authority.
#        userinfo = authority[/^([^\[\]]*)@/, 1]
#        if userinfo != nil
#          user = userinfo.strip[/^([^:]*):?/, 1]
#          password = userinfo.strip[/:(.*)$/, 1]
#        end
#        host = authority.gsub(/^([^\[\]]*)@/, EMPTYSTR).gsub(/:([^:@\[\]]*?)$/, EMPTYSTR)
#        port = authority[/:(\d+).*$/ , 1]#authority[/:([^:@\[\]]*?)$/, 1]
#        database = authority[/:\d+(.*)$/ , 1]
#      end
#      if port == EMPTYSTR
#        port = nil
#      end
#
#      return Addressable::URI.new(
#        :scheme => scheme,
#        :user => user,
#        :password => password,
#        :host => host,
#        :port => port,
#        :path => path,
#        :query => query,
#        :fragment => fragment,
#        :database => database
#      )
#
#    end
#  end
#end