Check URL validity

Question

Can someone confirm that -checkResourceIsReachableAndReturnError: method of NSURL is working as expected. I have tried using it for known URLs and

Answer 1

If you just want to know if the URL is valid, you can

NSURLRequest *req = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"yourstring"]];
bool valid = [NSURLConnection canHandleRequest:req];