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The protocol, domain, and port of the current page can be found by two methods:

Method 1: Using location.protocol, location.hostname, location.port methods: The location interface has various methods that can be used to return the required properties.

  • The location.protocol property is used to return the protocol scheme of the URL along with the final colon(:).
  • The location.hostname is used to return the domain name of the URL.
  • The location.port property is used to return the port of the URL. It returns nothing if the port is not described explicitly in the URL.

Syntax:

protocol = location.protocol;
domain = location.hostname;
port = location.port;

Example:




<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  
<head>
    <title>
        Get protocol, domain, and port from URL
    </title>
</head>
  
<body>
    <h1 style="color: green">
        GeeksforGeeks
    </h1>
      
    <b>
        Get protocol, domain, and port from URL
    </b>
      
    <p>
        Protocol is: 
        <span class="protocol"></span>
    </p>
      
    <p>
        Domain is: 
        <span class="domain"></span>
    </p>
      
    <p>
        Port is: 
        <span class="port"></span>
    </p>
      
    <button onclick="getDetails()">
        Get protocol, domain, port
    </button>
      
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function getDetails() {
            protocol = location.protocol;
            domain = location.hostname;
            port = location.port;
  
            document.querySelector('.protocol').textContent
                    = protocol;
            document.querySelector('.domain').textContent
                    = domain;
            document.querySelector('.port').textContent
                    = port;
        }
    </script>
</body>
  
</html>                    


Output:

  • Before Clicking the button:
  • After Clicking the button:

Method 2: Using the URL interface: The URL interface is used to represent object URL. It can be used for getting the port, domain, and protocol as it has inbuilt methods to get these values.

  • The url.protocol property is used to return the protocol scheme of the URL along with the final colon(:).
  • The url.hostname is used to return the domain of the URL.
  • The url.port property is used to return the port of the URL. It returns ” if the port is not described explicitly.

Note: This API is not supported in Internet Explorer 11.

Syntax:

current_url = window.location.href;
url_object = new URL(current_url);

protocol = url_object.protocol;
domain = url_object.hostname;
port = url_object.port;

Example:




<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
      
<head>
    <title>
        Get protocol, domain, and port from URL
    </title>
</head>
  
<body>
    <h1 style="color: green">
        GeeksforGeeks
    </h1>
      
    <b>
        Get protocol, domain, and port from URL
    </b>
      
    <p>Protocol is: <span class="protocol"></span></p>
    <p>Domain is: <span class="domain"></span></p>
    <p>Port is: <span class="port"></span></p>
      
    <button onclick="getDetails()">
        Get protocol, domain, port
    </button>
      
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function getDetails() {
            current_url = window.location.href;
            url_object = new URL(current_url);
  
            protocol = url_object.protocol;
            domain = url_object.hostname;
            port = url_object.port;
  
            document.querySelector('.protocol').textContent
                    = protocol;
            document.querySelector('.domain').textContent
                    = domain;
            document.querySelector('.port').textContent
                    = port;
        }
    </script>
</body>
  
</html>                    


Output:

  • Before Clicking the button:
  • After Clicking the button:


Last Updated : 30 May, 2019
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