Function

MalcontentWebFiltervalidate_domain_name

unstable since: 0.14.0

Declaration [src]

gboolean
mct_web_filter_validate_domain_name (
  const char* domain_name
)

Description [src]

Validate a potential domain name.

This checks against RFC 2181.

See mct_web_filter_validate_hostname() for validating hostnames instead. Domain names are entries in the DNS database, hostnames are website addresses. Every hostname is a domain name, but not vice-versa.

Available since: 0.14.0

Parameters

domain_name

Type: const char*

A potential domain name.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

Return value

Type: gboolean

True if domain_name is a valid domain name, false otherwise.