Regex to match all valid links

Question

In regards to this: http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/103227-parser-does-not-match-all-valid-urls is this regex adequate or will it need to be refined

Answer 1

I guess SO blocks comments after a while? localshred's answer is great, except for a missing wildcard and unescaped periods:

    /^([^:]+):\/\/([-\w\._]+)(\/[-\w\._]*\?(.+)?)?$/ig
                                        ^-- wildcard
                        ^
    we dont want to match everything ^