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# validate_url

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    <div className="dt sig sig-object py" id="gpudb.GPUdb.ValidateUrl.validate_url"> <span className="em property"><span className="k"><span className="pre">static</span></span><span className="w"> </span></span><span className="sig-name descname"><span className="pre">validate\_url</span></span><span className="sig-paren">(</span><span className="em sig-param"><span className="n"><span className="pre">url</span></span><span className="o"><span className="pre">=</span></span><span className="default_value"><span className="pre">None</span></span></span><span className="sig-paren">)</span><a href="https://github.com/kineticadb/kinetica-api-python/blob/master/gpudb/gpudb.py#L4674"><span className="viewcode-link"><span className="pre">\[source]</span></span></a></div>

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      <p>Takes in a string URL, validates it, adds defaults where necessary, and returns a tuple with the URL components.</p>
      <p><strong>Parameters</strong></p>

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            <div className="dt">url (<span className="em">str</span>) –</div>

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              <p>A string containing a Kinetica connection URL.</p>
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      <p><strong>Returns</strong></p>

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          <p>A two-part tuple, the first is whether or not the URL was able –</p>
          <p>to be parsed, and the second is either the error message (if the –</p>
          <p>URL couldn’t be parsed) or a 7-part tuple containing the –</p>
          <p>parsed URL and its components (<span className="em">if it could be parsed</span>)</p>
          <p>\* Full URL –</p>
          <p>\* Protocol (<span className="em">HTTP,HTTPS</span>) –</p>
          <p>\* Hostname –</p>
          <p>\* Port –</p>
          <p>\* Path –</p>
          <p>\* Username (<span className="em">if specified in the URL</span>) –</p>
          <p>\* Password (<span className="em">if specified in the URL</span>)</p>
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