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[#boost-urls-url_base-normalize_authority]

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Normalize the URL authority


== Synopsis

Declared in header `<https://www.github.com/boostorg/url/blob/develop/include/boost/url/url_base.hpp#L2582[boost/url/url_base.hpp,window=blank_]>`

[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,macros,-callouts"]
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xref:boost/urls/url_base.adoc[url_base]&
normalize_authority();
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== Description


Applies Syntax-based normalization to the
URL authority.

Percent-encoding triplets are normalized
to uppercase letters. Percent-encoded
octets that correspond to unreserved
characters are decoded.

=== Exception Safety

Strong guarantee.
Calls to allocate may throw.

=== Specification

* link:https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-6.2.2[6.2.2 Syntax-Based Normalization (rfc3986)]