Parsing NSURL in Objective-C

Question

I have an NSTextView control that could potentially have links in it. How do I get the full url of the link?

Here is what I have so far

-(BOOL)textView:(NSTextView *)aTextView clickedOnLink:(id)aLink atIndex:(NSUInteger)charIndex 
 {
     NSURL *htmlURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPathComponents:[aLink pathComponents]];
 }

This gives me a URL that begins with file://localhost ... How do I get rid of that portion of the URL?

Answer 1

NSURL* url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://localhost/myweb/index.html"];
NSString* reducedUrl = [NSString stringWithFormat:
    @"%@://%@",
    url.scheme,
    [url.pathComponents objectAtIndex:1]];