Break a URL down by utilizing an HTML anchor ("a") element to turn it into a Location object

getUrlAsLocation.js

var getUrlAsLocation = (function() {
	var urlPartKeyNames = ["href", "protocol", "host", "hostname", "port", "pathname", "search", "hash"];
	return function(url) {
		var link = document.createElement("a"),
			urlAsLocation = {};
		link.href = url;
		for (var i = 0, len = urlPartKeyNames.length; i < len; i++) {
			var urlPartKey = urlPartKeyNames[i];
			urlAsLocation[urlPartKey] = link[urlPartKey];
		}
		link = null;
		return urlAsLocation;
	};
})();