I have url
from the user and I have to reply with the fetched HTML.
How can I check for the URL to be malformed or not?
For example :
url = 'google' # Malformed
url = 'google.com' # Malformed
url = 'http://google.com' # Valid
url = 'http://google' # Malformed
import re
regex = re.compile(
r'^(?:http|ftp)s?://' # http:// or https://
r'(?:(?:[A-Z0-9](?:[A-Z0-9-]{0,61}[A-Z0-9])?\.)+(?:[A-Z]{2,6}\.?|[A-Z0-9-]{2,}\.?)|' #domain...
r'localhost|' #localhost...
r'\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3})' # ...or ip
r'(?::\d+)?' # optional port
r'(?:/?|[/?]\S+)$', re.IGNORECASE)
print(re.match(regex, "http://www.example.com") is not None) # True
print(re.match(regex, "example.com") is not None) # False