NAME

       Regexp::Common::URI -- provide patterns for URIs.

SYNOPSIS

           use Regexp::Common qw /URI/;

           while (<>) {
               /$RE{URI}{HTTP}/       and  print "Contains an HTTP URI.\n";
           }

DESCRIPTION

       Patterns for the following URIs are supported: fax, file, FTP, gopher, HTTP, news, NTTP,
       pop, prospero, tel, telnet, tv and WAIS.  Each is documented in the
       Regexp::Common::URI::scheme, manual page, for the appropriate scheme (in lowercase),
       except for NNTP URIs which are found in Regexp::Common::URI::news.

   $RE{URI}
       Return a pattern that recognizes any of the supported URIs. With "{-keep}", only the
       entire URI is returned (in $1).

REFERENCES

       [DRAFT-URI-TV]
           Zigmond, D. and Vickers, M: Uniform Resource Identifiers for Television Broadcasts.
           December 2000.

       [DRAFT-URL-FTP]
           Casey, James: A FTP URL Format. November 1996.

       [RFC 1035]
           Mockapetris, P.: DOMAIN NAMES - IMPLEMENTATION AND SPECIFICATION.  November 1987.

       [RFC 1738]
           Berners-Lee, Tim, Masinter, L., McCahill, M.: Uniform Resource Locators (URL).
           December 1994.

       [RFC 2396]
           Berners-Lee, Tim, Fielding, R., and Masinter, L.: Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI):
           Generic Syntax. August 1998.

       [RFC 2616]
           Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H., Masinter, L., Leach, P. and Berners-
           Lee, Tim: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1.  June 1999.

       [RFC 2806]
           Vaha-Sipila, A.: URLs for Telephone Calls. April 2000.

SEE ALSO

       Regexp::Common for a general description of how to use this interface.

AUTHOR

       Damian Conway (damian@conway.org)

MAINTAINANCE

       This package is maintained by Abigail (regexp-common@abigail.be).

BUGS AND IRRITATIONS

       Bound to be plenty.

       For a start, there are many common regexes missing.  Send them in to
       regexp-common@abigail.be.

LICENSE and COPYRIGHT

       This software is Copyright (c) 2001 - 2009, Damian Conway and Abigail.

       This module is free software, and maybe used under any of the following licenses:

        1) The Perl Artistic License.     See the file COPYRIGHT.AL.
        2) The Perl Artistic License 2.0. See the file COPYRIGHT.AL2.
        3) The BSD Licence.               See the file COPYRIGHT.BSD.
        4) The MIT Licence.               See the file COPYRIGHT.MIT.