Validating URL Programatically Using Regex

Validating URL Programatically Using Regex

Using this Code One could check whether the URL is in existence ie., being currently hosted by any server..

public bool IsURLValid(string strURL)

{

    string strResponse = "";

    try

    {

        string pattern = @"((http|ftp|https):\/\/w{3}[\d]*.|(http|ftp|https):

        \/\/|w{3}[\d]*.)([\w\d\._\-#\(\)\[\]\\,;:]+@[\w\d\._\-#\(\)\[\]\\,;:])?

        ([a-z0-9]+.)*[a-z\-0-9]+.([a-z]{2,3})?[a-z]{2,6}(:[0-9]+)?(\/[\/a-z0-9\._\-,]+)

        *[a-z0-9\-_\.\s\%]+(\?[a-z0-9=%&\.\-,#]+)?";

        //validatng url in case if it hasn't been validated earlier

        if(Regex.IsMatch(strURL,pattern))

        {

            WebRequest request = HttpWebRequest.Create(strURL);

            request.Timeout = 5000;

            strResponse = ((HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse()).StatusCode.ToString();

        }

    }

    catch(Exception exp)

    {

        strResponse = "";

    }

    return (strResponse=="OK")? true: false;

}