Question

I’m looking for a regex that will allow me to validate whether or not a string is the reference to a website address, or a specific page in that website.

So it would match:

http://google.com ftp://google.com http://google.com/ http://lots.of.subdomains.google.com 

But not:

http://google.com/search.whatever ftp://google.com/search.whatever http://lots.of.subdomains.google.com/search.whatever 

Any ideas? I can’t quite figure out how to handle allowing the / at the end of the URL.

Answer 1

Try this:

(http|ftp|https)://([a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+)/?