Re: Test for valid URL?
Re: Test for valid URL?
- Subject: Re: Test for valid URL?
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:59:53 -0400
A URL doesn't even have to refer to a network. It's a very generic
syntax. mailto:email@hidden - you don't have to be able to ping
bar.com, or even connect to it on the SMTP port, for that to be a
valid URL and even a valid email address.
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 8:10 AM, James Nierodzik
<email@hidden> wrote:
> Some servers may have ICMP responses turned off.
> Sent from my iPhone
> On Sep 16, 2010, at 6:43 AM, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Could you do a shall script to ping it?
> On Sep 16, 2010, at 5:38 AM, Steve Thompson wrote:
>
> On 16 Sep 2010, at 01:48, Michael Grant wrote:
>
> Does AppleScript provide any way of testing whether a string is a
> valid URL before using it as the argument of the "open location"
> command?
>
> A couple of other people have mentioned that the word "valid" is ambiguous
> but for "standard" URLs this works
> try
> do shell script "curl http://hgghjgjhghj/";
> on error
> display dialog "No a valid URL"
> end try
> If curl can't resolve the url it returns an error which AppleScript's try
> statement can catch.
> Steve
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