Re: extract URL from general text
Re: extract URL from general text
- Subject: Re: extract URL from general text
- From: "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:50:18 -0400
- Thread-topic: extract URL from general text
"Philip Aker" wrote:
> On 08-03-19, at 11:15, Rainer Standke wrote:
>
>> could you elaborate on the concept of 'curling it', please?
>
> He probably means to use the shell tool 'curl' in a 'do shell script'.
> The basic call is :
>
> curl -O http://www.apple.com
Yes, he does.
That's what I meant.
You will get a returned result which you can use to "validate" the URL at
that moment. If you're not connected to the net, then, of course, it may
not be (or may be, if you're pointing to a locahost "http://";, for example,
or a "file://" or other known protocol OYM.)
--
Gary
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