How to check for a valid URL in Java?

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Consider using the Apache Commons UrlValidator class

UrlValidator urlValidator = new UrlValidator();
urlValidator.isValid("http://my favorite site!");

There are several properties that you can set to control how this class behaves, by default http, https, and ftp are accepted.

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