Re: validate URL
| From: | Martin Jansen | Date: | Thu, 04 Dec 2003 17:32:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: validate URL | ||
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On Thu Dec 04, 2003 at 04:3505PM +0100, Pierre-Alain Joye wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 09:29:29 -0600
> Paul M Jones <pmjones@ciaweb.net> wrote:
>
> > On Dec 4, 2003, at 9:22 AM, Arnaud Limbourg wrote:
> >
> > > Nope.
> > >
> > > it means valid values are http, https, ftp
> > >
> > > the ? is for 0 or 1 which matches http or https.
> >
> > Which means that mailto:, news://, and gopher:// are not
> > valid?
>
> Those are valid URI (afair :). This function should valid widely
> called urls. But it should take care of ftps? as well ;)
IMO the method shouldn't be too strict about the protocol. Accepting
everything that only contains characters and nothing else sounds like a
good idea to me.
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