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>>>>You could allow parentheses in a url without allowing them in the part after the . ie not in .aspx
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>>>>I think that would solve it
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>>>Nope. Consider (www.whatever.com).The dot is not a part of URL.
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>>What I'm saying is that parentheses are not allowed in the final .xxx here .com
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>>You can have www.what(ever).com but not www.whatever.c(o)m
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>The problem is, you cannot reliably determine what the final part is (where URL ends).


Oh, I think I can get very close ... once I find the full spec of a url