function resolveURL(url) {
        var href = url;

        if (msie) {
        // IE needs attribute set twice to normalize properties
          urlParsingNode.setAttribute('href', href);
          href = urlParsingNode.href;
        }

        urlParsingNode.setAttribute('href', href);

        // urlParsingNode provides the UrlUtils interface - http://url.spec.whatwg.org/#urlutils
        return {
          href: urlParsingNode.href,
          protocol: urlParsingNode.protocol ? urlParsingNode.protocol.replace(/:$/, '') : '',
          host: urlParsingNode.host,
          search: urlParsingNode.search ? urlParsingNode.search.replace(/^\?/, '') : '',
          hash: urlParsingNode.hash ? urlParsingNode.hash.replace(/^#/, '') : '',
          hostname: urlParsingNode.hostname,
          port: urlParsingNode.port,
          pathname: (urlParsingNode.pathname.charAt(0) === '/') ?
            urlParsingNode.pathname :
            '/' + urlParsingNode.pathname
        };
      }
Parse a URL to discover it's components

@param {String} url The URL to be parsed
@returns {Object}