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10/24/2016

11:54 AM Ruby Feature #12867: Add ability to check validity of a URL

Shyouhei Urabe wrote:
> Doesn't URI.parse work for you?
As URI.parse actually check for valid URIs and not URLs
I tried something like this:
~~~ ruby
URI.parse(some_string).scheme == "http"
~~~
But it returns true for inva... shlok007 (Shlok Srivastava)

10/23/2016

06:53 AM Ruby Feature #12867 (Open): Add ability to check validity of a URL

Hi!
Going through the URI module of Ruby, it was obvious that we can check the validity of a URI by using URI.regexp . However, I found out there is no way we can accurately check for a valid URL by using the URI module. Won't it be bet... shlok007 (Shlok Srivastava)