So I had this running code:
function isURL($URL)
{
$uri = $URL -as [System.URI]
$uri.AbsoluteURI -ne $null -and $uri.Scheme -match "http|https"
}
isURL('http://www.powershell.com')
isURL('test')
isURL($null)
isURL('zzz://zumsel.zum')
isURL('hp:')
isURL('https:')
isURL('http')
isURL('http:/incomplete')
isURL('Maybenot.http://complete') #our function has an outliar here
isURL('http://complete.should.return.true')
isURL('https://also.complete.should.return.true')
Though there was one outliar, lets fix that…
I was having some issues playing around with different things, till I got me head out my ass and followed KISS principal..
Found this simple reference… and made a simple change in my code…
function isURL($URL)
{
$uri = $URL -as [System.URI]
$uri.AbsoluteURI -ne $null -and $uri.Scheme -like "http*"
}
isURL('http://www.powershell.com')
isURL('test')
isURL($null)
isURL('zzz://zumsel.zum')
isURL('hp:')
isURL('https:')
isURL('http')
isURL('http:/incomplete')
isURL('Maybenot.http://complete') #All Good now :)
isURL('http://complete.should.return.true')
isURL('https://also.complete.should.return.true')
Normally if your doing coding in other languages and not writing scripts, you’d usually want to write actual test code blocks. In scripting usually just keep things simple by utilizing input validation. If you look online you can use Invoke-Request but that requires being dependent on proper network stack and puts a load on the server or something that could easily be validated client side before any server requests are made.
Hope this helps someone.
Bonus (getting all sub paths from a URL string):
$Tet = "http://somesite.notorg/subsite/subite2/s3/doc/folder/no/matter/how/deep?"
$Array = ($Tet -split "/")
$Array = $Array[3..($Array.length -1)]
foreach($Item in $Array)
{
$FullLine = $FullLine + "\" + $Item
}
$FullLine