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Hi all,


I used require 'rss'.
got the feeds in links what i gave in the link field.

but i want to validate the link is corect url/uri or not.

Please reply to me
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saurabh purnaye wrote:
> Hi,
> There are ways to validate url
>
> 1. validate using reg ex
>
> /(^$)|(^(http|https):\/\/[a-z0-9]+([\-\.]{1}[a-z0-9]+)*\.[a-z]{2,5}(([0-9]{1,5})?\/.*)?$)/ix
>
> 2. Ping the url using 'net/http'
>
>
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Thanx for replying
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* saurabh purnaye <> wrote:
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> [Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
>
> Hi,
> There are ways to validate url
>
> 1. validate using reg ex
>
> /(^$)|(^(http|https):\/\/[a-z0-9]+([\-\.]{1}[a-z0-9]+)*\.[a-z]{2,5}(([0-9]{1,5})?\/.*)?$)/ix

Why not use the standard library?

require 'uri'

begin
uri = URI.parse(url_string)
rescue URI::InvalidURIError
puts "Bad URL: #{url_string}"
end

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