Here you can find the source of makeURL(String urlstr)
public static URL makeURL(String urlstr)
//package com.java2s; /*############################################################################## Copyright (C) 2011 HPCC Systems./*from w w w.ja v a2 s. c om*/ All rights reserved. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. ############################################################################## */ import java.net.MalformedURLException; import java.net.URL; import java.util.regex.Pattern; public class Main { public static final String defaultprotocol = "http"; public static final String protocolsep = "://"; public static final Pattern URLPROTPATTERN = Pattern.compile( "((https?|ftp|file)://|www\\.).+", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE | Pattern.UNICODE_CASE); public static URL makeURL(String urlstr) { URL theURL = null; try { theURL = new URL(ensureURLProtocol(urlstr)); } catch (MalformedURLException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } return theURL; } public static String ensureURLProtocol(String urlstr) { if (!URLPROTPATTERN.matcher(urlstr).matches()) { return defaultprotocol + protocolsep + urlstr; } else return urlstr; } }