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[apps-discuss] Fun with URLs and regex

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Wed, 07 January 2015 21:36 UTC

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I’ve updated my Python script that serves as a translation of ABNF for URIs into regex.

https://gist.github.com/mnot/138549

It now validates the following URI schemes according to their respective specifications:
  - http
  - https
  - file
  - data
  - gopher
  - ws
  - wss
  - mailto

I didn’t finish mailto or data, because they allow quoted-string inside of URLs, and that makes my head hurt.

Would the respective communities review the regex to make sure they’re faithful (except for the caveat around quoted strings)?

Cheers,

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Mark Nottingham   http://www.mnot.net/

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