Improve HRD first run experience

remoting/webapp/base/js/base.js

Index: remoting/webapp/base/js/base.js
diff --git a/remoting/webapp/base/js/base.js b/remoting/webapp/base/js/base.js
index 11bd091acf0ca9d5397e91db878a399403450da9..5c88dfd8fbabfe99c2b6bab848bea222e2f8d8f1 100644
--- a/remoting/webapp/base/js/base.js
+++ b/remoting/webapp/base/js/base.js
@@ -160,6 +160,20 @@ base.urlJoin = function(url, opt_params) {
   return url + '?' + queryParameters.join('&');
 };
 
+
+/**
+ * @return {Object.<string, string>} The URL parameters.
+ */
+base.getUrlParameters = function() {

[kelvinp, 2015/02/03 01:15:33]

Grouping it closer to the other url utilities

+  var result = {};
+  var parts = window.location.search.substring(1).split('&');
+  for (var i = 0; i < parts.length; i++) {
+    var pair = parts[i].split('=');
+    result[pair[0]] = decodeURIComponent(pair[1]);
+  }
+  return result;
+};
+
 /**
  * Convert special characters (e.g. &, < and >) to HTML entities.
  *
@@ -444,7 +458,7 @@ base.encodeUtf8 = function(string) {
   for (var i = 0; i < utf8String.length; i++)
     result[i] = utf8String.charCodeAt(i);
   return result.buffer;
-}
+};
 
 /**
   * Decodes UTF-8 string from ArrayBuffer.
@@ -455,7 +469,7 @@ base.encodeUtf8 = function(string) {
 base.decodeUtf8 = function(buffer) {
   return decodeURIComponent(
       escape(String.fromCharCode.apply(null, new Uint8Array(buffer))));
-}
+};
 
 /**
  * Generate a nonce, to be used as an xsrf protection token.
@@ -479,4 +493,4 @@ base.jsonParseSafe = function(jsonString) {
   } catch (err) {
     return undefined;
   }
-}
+};