URI validation functions

Synopsis

Replicates the functionality of http://search.cpan.org/~sonnen/Data-Validate-URI-0.01/lib/Data/Validate/URI.pm (http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/dom/libdata-validate-uri-perl.git ) into a nodejs module.

#Description

Installation

*fork it to install
*TODO: need add to npm

Usage

var validUrl = require('validUrl');

Methods

is_uri(value)
accepts value as string to be checked as any protocol url
returns undefined if is not url, returns RFC 3986 url if valid

is_http_uri(value, allowHttps)
accepts value as string to be checked as HTTP url, allowHttps as boolean to include https urls (optional)
returns undefined if is not url, returns RFC 3986 url if valid

is_https_uri(value)
accepts value as string to be checked as HTTPS url
returns undefined if is not url, returns RFC 3986 url if valid

is_web_uri(value)
accepts value as string to be checked as HTTP or HTTPS url
returns undefined if is not url, returns RFC 3986 url if valid