diff --git a/src/NzbDrone.Common.Test/ExtensionTests/UrlExtensionsFixture.cs b/src/NzbDrone.Common.Test/ExtensionTests/UrlExtensionsFixture.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..eae0736dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/NzbDrone.Common.Test/ExtensionTests/UrlExtensionsFixture.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Text;
+using FluentAssertions;
+using NUnit.Framework;
+using NzbDrone.Common.Extensions;
+
+namespace NzbDrone.Common.Test.ExtensionTests
+{
+    [TestFixture]
+    public class UrlExtensionsFixture
+    {
+        [TestCase("http://my.local/url")]
+        [TestCase("https://my.local/url")]
+        public void should_report_as_valid_url(string url)
+        {
+            url.IsValidUrl().Should().BeTrue();
+        }
+
+        [TestCase("")]
+        [TestCase(" http://my.local/url")]
+        [TestCase("http://my.local/url ")]
+        public void should_report_as_invalid_url(string url)
+        {
+            url.IsValidUrl().Should().BeFalse();
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/NzbDrone.Common.Test/NzbDrone.Common.Test.csproj b/src/NzbDrone.Common.Test/NzbDrone.Common.Test.csproj
index 80cd14005..cc9445bad 100644
--- a/src/NzbDrone.Common.Test/NzbDrone.Common.Test.csproj
+++ b/src/NzbDrone.Common.Test/NzbDrone.Common.Test.csproj
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@
     <Compile Include="ExtensionTests\IEnumerableExtensionTests\ExceptByFixture.cs" />
     <Compile Include="ExtensionTests\IEnumerableExtensionTests\IntersectByFixture.cs" />
     <Compile Include="ExtensionTests\Int64ExtensionFixture.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="ExtensionTests\UrlExtensionsFixture.cs" />
     <Compile Include="HashUtilFixture.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Http\HttpClientFixture.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Http\HttpHeaderFixture.cs" />
diff --git a/src/NzbDrone.Common/Extensions/UrlExtensions.cs b/src/NzbDrone.Common/Extensions/UrlExtensions.cs
index b2dac6c19..50e0b9856 100644
--- a/src/NzbDrone.Common/Extensions/UrlExtensions.cs
+++ b/src/NzbDrone.Common/Extensions/UrlExtensions.cs
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ namespace NzbDrone.Common.Extensions
                 return false;
             }
 
+            if (path.StartsWith(" ") || path.EndsWith(" "))
+            {
+                return false;
+            }
+
             Uri uri;
             if (!Uri.TryCreate(path, UriKind.Absolute, out uri))
             {