+
+// Check whether a capture source string is a URL or not.
+// This includes URLs that refer to a local device; a scheme, followed
+// by ://, followed by *another* scheme and ://, is just silly, and
+// anybody who supplies that will get an error.
+//
+static int
+is_url(const char *source)
+{
+ char *colonp;
+
+ /*
+ * RFC 3986 says:
+ *
+ * URI = scheme ":" hier-part [ "?" query ] [ "#" fragment ]
+ *
+ * hier-part = "//" authority path-abempty
+ * / path-absolute
+ * / path-rootless
+ * / path-empty
+ *
+ * authority = [ userinfo "@" ] host [ ":" port ]
+ *
+ * userinfo = *( unreserved / pct-encoded / sub-delims / ":" )
+ *
+ * Step 1: look for the ":" at the end of the scheme.
+ * A colon in the source is *NOT* sufficient to indicate that
+ * this is a URL, as interface names on some platforms might
+ * include colons (e.g., I think some Solaris interfaces
+ * might).
+ */
+ colonp = strchr(source, ':');
+ if (colonp == NULL)
+ {
+ /*
+ * The source is the device to open. It's not a URL.
+ */
+ return (0);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * All schemes must have "//" after them, i.e. we only support
+ * hier-part = "//" authority path-abempty, not
+ * hier-part = path-absolute
+ * hier-part = path-rootless
+ * hier-part = path-empty
+ *
+ * We need that in order to distinguish between a local device
+ * name that happens to contain a colon and a URI.
+ */
+ if (strncmp(colonp + 1, "//", 2) != 0)
+ {
+ /*
+ * The source is the device to open. It's not a URL.
+ */
+ return (0);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * It's a URL.
+ */
+ return (1);
+}