URL Parsing Utility?

[Kent Borg]

Anyone know of a simple but good little URL parser?  I want something
that will take an obfuscated URL of the sort included in some spam,
the ones that are full of %'s and =2e's and stuff like that.

I want to know who is being promoted in spam so I can complain to
their provider.  The complaints must be annoying to them, otherwise
why obscure themselves?

I can decode the URLs by hand, but that is a slow and a pain.  I could
let my web browser decode them and then look at the result in netstat
or something, but I don't want to provide them with any hits on their
ads, information of my IP address, etc.

So I want something I can feed
"http://%36%36%2E%333.%36%30%2E9%31%2Fme%65tp%65o%70%6C%65/" and find
out the machine it really points to.

Suggestions?


Thanks,

-kb