yes, better.
On Nov 11, 4:54 pm, achipa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe it would be worth generalizing it a bit, a sort of
> IS_URI(schema=['generic'|'http'|'ftp'|'mailto']) and have http as the
> default?
>
> On Nov 11, 4:43 pm, mdipierro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Jonathan,
>
> > please make them into a single one IS_URL(mode="strict" or "generic")
> > and email it to me. I will include it in the official distribution. I
> > do not use bitbucket. bz only.
>
> > Massmo
>
> > On Nov 11, 6:28 am, Jonathan Benn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Hi everyone,
>
> > > It took me a few days but I managed to implement and thoroughly test
> > > two new validator functions for web2py:
>
> > > IS_GENERIC_URL: this precisely follows the URL specs (RFC 2396). It
> > > screens out strings with funny characters, and checks the inputed
> > > scheme against an authoritative list of all valid schemes. This
> > > generic function will work to validate ANY protocol that uses URLs.
>
> > > IS_HTTP_URL: this precisely follows the HTTP protocol URL specs (RFC
> > > 2616). It only works for http and https, but it handles all the weird
> > > cases, like relative URLs, abbreviated URLs, ports, localhost, etc.
> > > etc. It checks to make sure the domain makes sense, and it checks the
> > > top-level domain against an authoritative list. If you input an
> > > abbreviated URL, it will prepend "http://"; unless you specify
> > > otherwise when you construct the validator.
>
> > > As you might guess, successful validations of IS_HTTP_URL are a subset
> > > of what IS_GENERIC_URL validates.
>
> > > It is not possible to create a version of IS_URL that properly
> > > validates HTTP, FTP and FILE and other schemes, because each scheme is
> > > mutually exclusive as far as I can tell. They each have their own
> > > different syntaxes. Therefore, I suggest that for IS_URL we either:
>
> > > (1) Make it into an "umbrella function" that runs a series of
> > > validators one after the other, returning the first that is accepted
>
> > > OR
>
> > > (2) We rename either IS_HTTP_URL or IS_GENERIC_URL to IS_URL,
> > > depending on which one best reflects the desired implementation for
> > > IS_URL
>
> > > I'm going to try to figure out how to upload my changes to BitBucket
> > > tomorrow. For anyone that would like to see my results immediately,
> > > please just send me an email and I'll be happy to send you the files.
>
> > > I hope the above helps at least a little,
>
> > > --Jonathan
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