rubemz / ruby-domain_name

Domain Name manipulation library for Ruby

domain_name

Synopsis

Domain Name manipulation library for Ruby

Description

• Parses a domain name ready for extracting the registered domain and TLD.

    require "domain_name"
  
    host = DomainName("a.b.example.co.uk")
    host.domain         #=> "example.co.uk"
    host.tld            #=> "uk"
    host.cookie_domain?("example.co.uk")    #=> true
    host.cookie_domain?("co.uk")            #=> false
  
    host = DomainName("[::1]")  # IP addresses like "192.168.1.1" and "::1" are also acceptable
    host.ipaddr?        #=> true
    host.cookie_domain?("0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1")  #=> true
  

• Implements rudimental IDNA support.

To-do's

• Implement IDNA 2008 (and/or 2003) including the domain label validation and mapping defined in RFC 5891-5895 and UTS #46. (work in progress)

• Define a compact YAML serialization format.

Installation

gem install domain_name

References

• RFC 3492 (Obsolete; just for test cases)

• RFC 5890

• RFC 5891

• RFC 5892

• RFC 5893

• Public Suffix List

• Effective TLD Names List

License

Copyright (c) 2011, 2012, 2013 Akinori MUSHA

Licensed under the 2-clause BSD license.

Some portion of this library is copyrighted by third parties and licensed under MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 or 3-clause BSD license, See LICENSE.txt for details.