---
title: 'useRequestURL'
description: 'Access the incoming request URL with the useRequestURL composable.'
links:
  - label: Source
    icon: i-simple-icons-github
    to: https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/blob/main/packages/nuxt/src/app/composables/url.ts
    size: xs
---

`useRequestURL` is a helper function that returns an [URL object](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL/URL) working on both server-side and client-side.

::important
When utilizing [Hybrid Rendering](/docs/guide/concepts/rendering#hybrid-rendering) with cache strategies, all incoming request headers are dropped when handling the cached responses via the [Nitro caching layer](https://nitro.unjs.io/guide/cache) (meaning `useRequestURL` will return `localhost` for the `host`).

You can define the [`cache.varies` option](https://nitro.unjs.io/guide/cache#options) to specify headers that will be considered when caching and serving the responses, such as `host` and `x-forwarded-host` for multi-tenant environments.
::

::code-group

```vue [pages/about.vue]
<script setup lang="ts">
const url = useRequestURL()
</script>

<template>
  <p>URL is: {{ url }}</p>
  <p>Path is: {{ url.pathname }}</p>
</template>
```

```html [Result in development]
<p>URL is: http://localhost:3000/about</p>
<p>Path is: /about</p>
```

::

::tip{icon="i-simple-icons-mdnwebdocs" color="gray" to="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/URL#instance_properties" target="_blank"}
Read about the URL instance properties on the MDN documentation.
::