http://www.bytemycode.com Revisions for this snippet. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:43:19 +0000 1998-2008 en-us http://www.bytemycode.com http://www.bytemycode.com/img/rss_title.gif http://www.bytemycode.com/snippets/snippet/796/1/ http://www.bytemycode.com/snippets/snippet/796/comments/ Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:10:58 +0000 inxilpro "Regular, Expression", regex, RegExp http://www.bytemycode.com/snippets/snippet/796/ This is as close to a perfect URL regular expression as I've come. It's based on RFC 3986.

A few caveats:

It only accepts http/https/ftp URLs by design, but you could change that to accept any valid URI pretty easily.

It doesn't support IP-based URLs or authenticated URLs. This is also by design, but you could change that with a little work.

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