----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Liotta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: Storing URL's
> I would just create an instance of java.net.URL using the URL supplied
> by the user. If the user supplied a malformed URL an exception would be
> thrown, which of course can be caught and handled more gracefully. For
> example...
>
> <cfscript>
> url = "" "java.net.URL");
> url.init("this is not a real url");
> </cfscript>
>
> -Matt
>
>
> On Jan 20, 2004, at 3:28 PM, Deanna Schneider wrote:
>
> > Hey all,
> > So, I'm sure we've all dealt with storing URL's that users can enter.
> > And,
> > no matter how much you say, "Start the url with http://"or "start the
> > URL
> > with www" someone will do it the opposite way.
> >
> > So, the question is - do you check the format of the url on the insert
> > and
> > clean them so they're all the same? Or, do you do it on the output?
> > Either
> > way, are you just checking for the existence ofhttp://, or are you
> > doing
> > something else super fantabulistic with regex or something that I'm not
> > thinking of?
> >
> > -d
> >
> >
> > --
> > Deanna Schneider
> > UWEX-Cooperative Extension
> > Interactive Media Developer
> >
>
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