Re: [Demexp-dev] What to check in an HTTP URL?

[David MENTRE]

Hello Félix and FX,

François-Xavier Ponscarme <address@hidden> writes:

>   http://www.foad.org/~abigail/Perl/url2.html

Well, it is rather complicated to do an extensive check. I looked
quickly at BigBrother code but it uses Pcre with camlp4 extensions so I
don't want to dig in that code for now.

Right now, I do following checks:

 - link field size is limited to 256 bytes;

 - the link should match following (OCaml Str[1]) regexp:
    ^http://[-A-Za-z0-9_.]+\\(:[0-9]+\\)?[-A-Za-z0-9+&:;@_.%=?/]*$

This regexp limit ourself to a pretty basic character set and HTTP. I
prefer to be too much restrictive, and loosing the check afterwards if
needed.

Let me know if you see potential issues in this check.

Yours,
d.

Footnotes: 
[1]  Like in Emacs, '(' and ')' are doubly escaped.
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