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Return the complete authority

== Synopsis

Declared in `<https://www.github.com/boostorg/url/blob/develop/include/boost/url/authority_view.hpp#L269[boost/url/authority_view.hpp]>`

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core::string_view
buffer() const noexcept;
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== Description

This function returns the authority as a percent‐encoded string.

== Example
[,cpp]
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assert( parse_authority( "www.example.com" ).value().buffer() == "www.example.com" );
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== BNF
[,cpp]
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authority   = [ userinfo "@" ] host [ ":" port ]
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== Exception Safety
Throws nothing.

== Specification
* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-3.2[]

== Return Value

The complete authority


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