Simple and safe URL parsing which allows for some special characters.

safe-parse.js

function safeParse (str) {
  var whack = str.indexOf('://'),
      at = str.lastIndexOf('@'),
      auth;
  
  str = str.replace(/\/$/, '');
  auth = str.substring(whack + 3, at);
  return {
    url: str.replace(auth + '@', ''),
    auth: auth
  };
}