How to strip down or parse an Url using C#

Many times I need to get the segments of an Url, and I’m not only talking about the query string.

If we search around the web we can see a lot of ideas for parsing URLs, most using regular expressions.
The fact is that .net Framework gives us a much better tool: System.Uri

So if we have an Url that we need to strip down we can write:

public void MyMethod(string url)
{
	System.Uri path = new Uri(url);
	var protocol = path.Scheme;
	var host = path.Host;
	// See the System.Uri documentation for the available methods
}

Note that this object is the same that you may be familiar with and is used when we get the current HttpContext url:

System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.Url