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doc: update message.url example in http.IncomingMessage #30830

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55 changes: 16 additions & 39 deletions doc/api/http.md
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Then `request.url` will be:
To parse the url into its parts The WHATWG URL API can be used:
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<!-- eslint-disable semi -->
```js
'/status?name=ryan'
new URL(request.url, `http://${request.headers.host}`);
```

To parse the url into its parts `require('url').parse(request.url)`
can be used:
When `request.url` is `'/status?name=ryan'` and `request.headers.host` is `'localhost:3000'`:
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```console
$ node
> require('url').parse('/status?name=ryan')
Url {
protocol: null,
slashes: null,
auth: null,
host: null,
port: null,
hostname: null,
hash: null,
search: '?name=ryan',
query: 'name=ryan',
> new URL('/status?name=ryan', 'localhost:3000')
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URL {
href: 'http://localhost:3000/status?name=ryan',
origin: 'http://localhost:3000',
protocol: 'http:',
username: '',
password: '',
host: 'localhost:3000',
hostname: 'localhost',
port: '3000',
pathname: '/status',
path: '/status?name=ryan',
href: '/status?name=ryan' }
```

To extract the parameters from the query string, the
`require('querystring').parse` function can be used, or
`true` can be passed as the second argument to `require('url').parse`:

```console
$ node
> require('url').parse('/status?name=ryan', true)
Url {
protocol: null,
slashes: null,
auth: null,
host: null,
port: null,
hostname: null,
hash: null,
search: '?name=ryan',
query: { name: 'ryan' },
pathname: '/status',
path: '/status?name=ryan',
href: '/status?name=ryan' }
searchParams: URLSearchParams { 'name' => 'ryan' },
hash: ''
}
```

## http.METHODS
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