uri:uri_is_global/1

uri_is_global(+URI) is semidet

True if URI has a scheme. The semantics is the same as the code below, but the implementation is more efficient as it does not need to parse the other components, nor needs to bind the scheme. The condition to demand a scheme of more than one character is added to avoid confusion with DOS path names.

uri_is_global(URI) :-
        uri_components(URI, Components),
        uri_data(scheme, Components, Scheme),
        nonvar(Scheme),
        atom_length(Scheme, Len),
        Len > 1.