How to Check Whether a String Is a Valid Http Url

How to check whether a string is a valid HTTP URL?

Try this to validate HTTP URLs (uriName is the URI you want to test):

Uri uriResult;
bool result = Uri.TryCreate(uriName, UriKind.Absolute, out uriResult) 
    && uriResult.Scheme == Uri.UriSchemeHttp;

Or, if you want to accept both HTTP and HTTPS URLs as valid (per J0e3gan's comment):

Uri uriResult;
bool result = Uri.TryCreate(uriName, UriKind.Absolute, out uriResult) 
    && (uriResult.Scheme == Uri.UriSchemeHttp || uriResult.Scheme == Uri.UriSchemeHttps);

Check if a JavaScript string is a URL

A related question with an answer

Or this Regexp from Devshed:

function validURL(str) {
  var pattern = new RegExp('^(https?:\\/\\/)?'+ // protocol
    '((([a-z\\d]([a-z\\d-]*[a-z\\d])*)\\.)+[a-z]{2,}|'+ // domain name
    '((\\d{1,3}\\.){3}\\d{1,3}))'+ // OR ip (v4) address
    '(\\:\\d+)?(\\/[-a-z\\d%_.~+]*)*'+ // port and path
    '(\\?[;&a-z\\d%_.~+=-]*)?'+ // query string
    '(\\#[-a-z\\d_]*)?$','i'); // fragment locator
  return !!pattern.test(str);
}

How to check whether a string is a valid url

I use this regex.

[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{2,256}\.[a-z]{2,6}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&\/=]*)

Here's the regex in action with this question's url:

So if a match is found you got yourself a URL. And if in the future you need to get parts of it it can do that for you too.

Dart / Flutter - Validating a string for URL

For some reason, the validators package is requiring a pretty recent version of flutter's testing library rather than leaving it up to the application. Maybe there's a good reason for that (i.e. they're using a new feature).

The flutter engine internally requires a particular version of the flutter_test library (which is why it's generally a bad idea to specify a version of it). So to fix this you'll have to upgrade your flutter by running flutter upgrade. If you're already at the most recent version of the channel you're in, you may have to run flutter channel dev or flutter channel master to switch to a channel (branch really) that's updated more often.

I run on the dev branch/channel for the most part and while it very occasionally has problems, it doesn't happen a lot. I'd advise against using the master branch if possible though.

best URL validation

Your CheckURLValid is returning exactly what you have told it to.

To return True on all 4 URLs here are the issues

false: google.com

This is a relative url and you have specified UriKind.Absolute which means this is false.

false: https://www.google.com.my/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8#newwindow=1&q=check%20if%20valid%20url%20c%23

This is an httpS (Secure) url and your method says

&& uriResult.Scheme == Uri.UriSchemeHttp;

which will limit you to only http addresses (NON secure)

To get the results you are wanting you will need to use the following method:

public static bool CheckURLValid(string strURL)
{
    Uri uriResult;
    return Uri.TryCreate(strURL, UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute, out uriResult);
}

An alternative is to just use

Uri.IsWellFormedUriString(strURL, UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute);

and not re implement functionality that all ready exists. If you wanted to wrap it it your own CheckUrlValid I would use the following:

public static bool CheckURLValid(string strURL)
{
    return Uri.IsWellFormedUriString(strURL, UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute); ;
}

The main problem is that most strings are valid relative URL's so I would avoid using UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute as google.com is an invalid url. Most web browsers silently add HTTP:// to the string to make it a valid url. HTTP://google.com is a valid url.

Check if a string in C# is a URL

C# has Regex as well, but this seems simpler:

bool isUri = Uri.IsWellFormedUriString(url, UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute);

(Answered at Regular expression for URL)

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