Outgoing partial links -> https (on the fly)? - NOT http

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Checking if http (and https with a similar function) is possible, using just the head of the target page, code copied from:

def check_http_url(url):
    HTTP_URL = f'http://{url}'
    try:
        HTTP_URL = urlparse(HTTP_URL)
        connection = HTTPConnection(HTTP_URL.netloc)
        connection.request('HEAD', HTTP_URL.path)
        if connection.getresponse():
            return True
        else:
            return False
    except:
        return False

So with that (translated to Ruby if I recall), Discourse back-end could find out if the target of a partial link given in a post is https or http, then (with a preference for https) open the correct target link for the user?