valid_url rule not working

In fact i need a rules which will return true only when find URL like these "google.com", "www.google.com", "http://google.com" etc but return false when not a valid a web address

Your best bet in this case would probably be to create a custom validation function which calls the valid_url() method, then performs additional checks if the valid_url() method returns true.

The first resource for determining what makes up a valid URL is often RFC 3986, but I don't think you'll find this very helpful for whatever you need to do to determine what input represents a "valid web address".

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