Hiya,

I need an easy way to validate URLs, ie, to make sure that they're
syntactically correct according to rfc2396, not if they exist etc.

The Apache class "org.apache.commons.validator.UrlValidator" looks
extremely promising, but I can't get it to work.  Even the example in
the Javadoc fails. For instance:

    UrlValidator validate = new UrlValidator();
    System.out.println(validate.isValid("ftp"));

This should print "true" according to the Javadoc, doesn't though.
Indeed, everything returns "false": http://example.com, for example.
What am I doing wrong?

Here's a link to the javadoc: http://linkfrog.net/validate.

Thanks in advance,

Walter Gildersleeve
Freiburg, Germany