URI.js is an [RFC 3986](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt) compliant, scheme extendable URI parsing/validating/resolving library for all JavaScript environments (browsers, Node.js, etc).
It is also compliant with the IRI ([RFC 3987](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt)), IDNA ([RFC 5890](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5890.txt)), IPv6 Address ([RFC 5952](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5952.txt)), IPv6 Zone Identifier ([RFC 6874](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6874.txt)) specifications.
All of the above functions can accept an additional options argument that is an object that can contain one or more of the following properties:
*`scheme` (string)
Indicates the scheme that the URI should be treated as, overriding the URI's normal scheme parsing behavior.
*`reference` (string)
If set to `"suffix"`, it indicates that the URI is in the suffix format, and the validator will use the option's `scheme` property to determine the URI's scheme.
*`tolerant` (boolean, false)
If set to `true`, the parser will relax URI resolving rules.
*`absolutePath` (boolean, false)
If set to `true`, the serializer will not resolve a relative `path` component.
*`iri` (boolean, false)
If set to `true`, the serializer will unescape non-ASCII characters as per [RFC 3987](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt).
*`unicodeSupport` (boolean, false)
If set to `true`, the parser will unescape non-ASCII characters in the parsed output as per [RFC 3987](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt).
*`domainHost` (boolean, false)
If set to `true`, the library will treat the `host` component as a domain name, and convert IDNs (International Domain Names) as per [RFC 5891](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5891.txt).
## Scheme Extendable
URI.js supports inserting custom [scheme](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme) dependent processing rules. Currently, URI.js has built in support for the following schemes:
URN parsing has been completely changed to better align with the specification. Scheme is now always `urn`, but has two new properties: `nid` which contains the Namspace Identifier, and `nss` which contains the Namespace Specific String. The `nss` property will be removed by higher order scheme handlers, such as the UUID URN scheme handler.
The UUID of a URN can now be found in the `uuid` property.
### Breaking changes from 2.x
URI validation has been removed as it was slow, exposed a vulnerabilty, and was generally not useful.
### Breaking changes from 1.x
The `errors` array on parsed components is now an `error` string.