On Feb 6, 2011, at 11:40 AM, Luther Goh Lu Feng wrote: > > Is there an equivalent to > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/fields/#urlfield > in web2py? > > If not, how does one validate an external url that is to be stored in > the database?
There are validators, IS_URL and IS_HTTP_URL, that check the syntax but don't actually do an access. Doing an access with an arbitrary user-entered URL seems pretty risky.
