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		cobalt on June 23, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In search of the perfect URL validation regex What's wrong with /([\w-]+:\/\/[^\s]+)/gi It's not fancy but it will essentially match any url

zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on June 23, 2014 [–]

/./ will also match any URL. The point is to reject non-URLs.

mathias on June 23, 2014 | [–]

Yes, to reject non-URLs and also some URLs that are technically valid but that I want to explicitly disallow anyway.

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