# User website preference is invalid with underscore

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-website-preference-is-invalid-with-underscore/41784
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 30, 2016, 6:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-website-preference-is-invalid-with-underscore/41784 "2016-03-30T18:14:39Z")
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### Author: ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2017, 2:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-website-preference-is-invalid-with-underscore/41784/7 "2017-12-21T14:35:08Z")

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> [@Photography Domain Invalid as Website on Profile](https://meta.discourse.org/t/photography-domain-invalid-as-website-on-profile/76319/18):
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> OK so I had a look through the previous commits and realized that what we initially wanted to do is to [validate the format of the URL](https://meta.discourse.org/t/url-validation-for-web-site-on-user-profile/38864/5). That means that there is no need for us to care about whether the URL would return a valid HTTP response as that would require a different solution if we wanted to verify that. However, I did noticed that our UrlValidator wasn’t handling a bunch of cases properly and that has been fixed in I’ve also switched the validation for UserProfile#website to use our U…

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