SWIFT: Why is “NSURL(string:” returning with Nil, even though it's a valid url in a browser?

Question

The first two example links are working the third one returns NIL.

Why is NSUrl returning nil for such string, even though it\'s a valid url in a browser?

Am

Answer 1

You should URL-encode the URL like this:

selectedFeedUrl = selectedFeedUrl.stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)