How to grab the full URL in a plugin?

Question

When writing a plugin is there a Craft request to grab the entire url? I want to grab everything including http://domain.com/uri preferably without writing my own function.

I see getUrl but craft()->request->url only returns 'uri' of http://domain.com/uri.

Answer 1

You're probably looking for something like:

craft()->request->getHostInfo().craft()->request->getRequestUri();

Which will return the host name with the schema it's using (http:// or https://) as well as any URI after the host including any querystring parameters.