Extracting part of current page's URL in javascript

Question

In ASP.NET MVC 3 site, I open the following uri

http://myserver/incidents/supercompany/register

That page needs to make use of ajax JSON retrieval mechanism with the help of jQuery:

$.getJSON('/Incidents/[[COMPANY NAME GOES HERE]]/SearchPeople/' + request.term, function (data) 

I am new to javascript. How can I obtain supercompany part of my current url to build the

/Incidents/supercompany/SearchPeople/ string?

Answer 1

Assuming your URLs follow a logical structure, you can do this

var URLparts = window.location.toString().substr(7).split('/');

And you can now access URLparts[1] to get the company name. Obviously, you need to be able to know that that will ALWAYS be there, but it's a solution if you can guarantee that (eg. with htaccess).