Re: Extracting hostname from URI column

Paul Lambert wrote:
> chester c young wrote:
>>> I'm trying to use substr() and position() functions to extract the
>>> full host name (and later a domain) from a column that holds URLs.
>>
>> substring( href from '.*://\([^/]*)' );
>>
> 
> Ok, your solution looks better than mine... but I have no idea how to 
> interpret that, time to consult some manuals.
> 

OK - following on from this, I'm doing a similar thing to the OP to 
analyze my proxy's traffic (never occured to me to do it in a db until 
that post)

I've done the above regex to pull out the domain part of the URL and am 
left with results such as:
"acvs.mediaonenetwork.net"
"profile.ak.facebook.com"
"www.bankwest.com.au"

What I want to do next is pull out the major domain part of the URL
I.e. for the above three records I should end up with
"mediaonenetwork.net"
"facebook.com"
"bankwest.com.au"

What would be the best way to do something like that? I assume it won't 
be a simple regex like the above due to the country codes on the end of 
some domains. My thought is look at the last portion of the domain, if 
it's 2 characters long then assume it's a country code and grab the last 
three sections, if it's not three characters long then assume it's an 
international domain and grab the last two... but that sounds a bit dodgy.

-- 
Paul Lambert
Database Administrator
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