### Function

# GLib Uri split_network

since: 2.66

#### Declaration

    gboolean
    g_uri_split_network (
      const gchar* uri_string,
      GUriFlags flags,
      gchar** scheme,
      gchar** host,
      gint* port,
      GError** error
    )

#### Description

Parses `uri_string` (which must be an absolute URI) according to `flags`, and returns the pieces relevant to connecting to a host. See the documentation for `g_uri_split()` for more details; this is mostly a wrapper around that function with simpler arguments. However, it will return an error if `uri_string` is a relative URI, or does not contain a hostname component.

Available since: 2.66

#### Parameters

`uri_string`

  Type: `const gchar*`

  A string containing an absolute URI.

  The data is owned by the caller of the function.
  The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

`flags`

  Type: `GUriFlags`

  Flags for parsing `uri_string`.

`scheme`

  Type: `gchar**`

  On return, contains the scheme (converted to lowercase), or `NULL`.

  The argument will be set by the function.
  The argument can be set to `NULL` by the function.
  The argument can be `NULL`.
  The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
  The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

`host`

  Type: `gchar**`

  On return, contains the host, or `NULL`.

  The argument will be set by the function.
  The argument can be set to `NULL` by the function.
  The argument can be `NULL`.
  The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
  The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

`port`

  Type: `gint*`

  On return, contains the port, or `-1`

  The argument will be set by the function.
  The argument can be `NULL`.

`error`

  Type: `GError **`

  The return location for a recoverable error.

  The argument can be `NULL`.
  If the return location is not `NULL`, then you must initialize it to a `NULL` `GError*`.
  The argument will be left initialized to `NULL` by the function if there are no errors.
  In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated `GError`; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

#### Return value

Type: `gboolean`

`TRUE` if `uri_string` parsed successfully, `FALSE` on error.