Parse a URI using the browser's DOM

UFCOE.parseUri.js

(function (w, d) {
    //https://gist.github.com/1847816
    var a, k = 'protocol hostname host pathname port search hash href'.split(' ');
    w.UFCOE = w.UFCOE || {};
    /**
     * Parse a URI, returning an object similar to Location
     * 
     * Usage: UFCOE.parseUri("hello?search#hash").search -> "?search"
     * 
     * @param String url
     * @return Object
     */
    w.UFCOE.parseUri = function (url) {
        var getAnchor = function(url){
            //For IE support : http://stackoverflow.com/a/22918332/937891
            var div= d.createElement('div');    
            div.innerHTML = "<a></a>";
            div.firstChild.href = url; // Ensures that the href is properly escaped
            div.innerHTML = div.innerHTML; // Run the current innerHTML back through the parser
            return div.firstChild.href;
        };
        a || (a = getAnchor(url)); // Let browser do the work
        for (var r = {}, i = 0; i<8; i++) {
            r[k[i]] = a[k[i]];
        }
        r.toString = function() { return a.href; };
        r.requestUri = r.pathname + r.search;
        return r;
    };
})(window, document);