Java Utililty Methods URL to Host Name

List of utility methods to do URL to Host Name

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Method

StringgetHost(String url)
Returns the hostname or ip address portion of a url. 
try {
    URL u = new URL(url);
    return u.getHost();
} catch (Exception e) {
return url;
StringgetHost(String url)
Returns the lowercased hostname for the url or null if the url is not well formed. 
try {
    return new URL(url).getHost().toLowerCase();
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
    return null;
StringgetHost(String url)
Parses URL and get host from it, if it is possible 
if (url.contains("://")) {
    URI uri = URI.create(url);
    return uri.getHost();
} else if (GIT_URL_PATTERN.matcher(url).matches()) {
    return url.substring(url.indexOf("@") + 1, url.indexOf(":"));
} else {
    return null;
StringgetHost(String url)
get Host 
URI uri = null;
try {
    uri = new URI(url);
} catch (URISyntaxException e) {
    System.out.println("Omg, It's not a valid URL: " + url);
    return "";
String host = uri.getHost();
...
StringgetHost(String url)
get Host 
if (isEmpty(url)) {
    return url;
String host = null;
if (url.contains(SCHEME_SEPARATOR)) {
    try {
        host = new URI(url).getHost();
    } catch (URISyntaxException ignored) {
...
StringgetHost(String urlString)
get Host 
try {
    URL url = new URL(urlString);
    return url.getHost();
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
    throw e;
StringgetHost(String urlString)
Retrieves the host from a URL {Category} StringUtil {param} string(url) url: String. 
if (urlString == null) {
    return null;
urlString = urlString.trim().toLowerCase();
if (urlString.startsWith("http://") == false) {
    urlString = "http://" + urlString;
String decUrl = null;
...
StringgetHost(URL url)
get Host 
return url.getHost() + ":" + (url.getProtocol().equals("http") ? 80 : url.getPort());
byte[]getHostAddressAsBytes(String url)
Returns the Host Address of a given URL as byte[]. 
return InetAddress.getByName(getHostAddress(url)).getAddress();
StringgetHostAndPort(final URL url)
get Host And Port 
return url.getHost() + ":" + getSanitizedPort(url);