Checking on Gopher Coding

Check If a URL is Valid

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0000

This is just a quick post showing how we can check if a URL is a valid one. URLs are often passed from third parties or user input, so they need to be checked before used. This function allows you to do just that, it will return true if the string is a valid URL. Feel free to copy and paste it and go from there.

e.g. valid “https://gophercoding.com/"

e.g. invalid “test string”

Get Status Code from HTTP Request

Sun, 23 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0000

We won’t go into too much detail about HTTP status codes themselves, but in this post we will talk about how to use the status code after making a request, how to check them as a range and how to print them as text. This is often important so we can check if something was successful or failed.

You can always get this data if you have a net/http/Response type (spec).