Can check the validity of an URL

src/utils/string_utils.rs

@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 //!
 //! This module contains utilities that can be used accross all the application
 
+use std::convert::TryFrom;
+use std::str::FromStr;
+
+use actix_web::dev::Url;
+use actix_web::http::Uri;
+
 /// Escape an HTML string
 ///
 /// Removes the HTML code included inside a string
@@ -16,4 +22,19 @@
 pub fn remove_html_nodes(input: &str) -> String {
     input.replace("<", "&lt;")
         .replace(">", "&gt;")
+}
+
+/// Check out whether a URL is valid or not
+///
+/// ```
+/// use comunic_server::utils::string_utils::check_url;
+///
+/// let url1 = "http://communniquons.org/?url=some&arg2=myname#content3";
+/// assert_eq!(check_url(url1), true);
+///
+/// let url2 = "h@ttp://communniquons.org/?url=some&arg2=myname#content3";
+/// assert_eq!(check_url(url2), false);
+/// ```
+pub fn check_url(url: &str) -> bool {
+    Uri::from_str(url).is_ok()
 }