I need to have a good regex for URL validation in javascript. After googling a number of websites, blogs and forums. The best I found is this blog post by Ivan Porto Carrero

I modified it a bit to make it valid in Javascript as shown below:

If you like it, a link back/comments would be much much appreciated

Got this image from Hacker News, originally located here.

It’s something that we need to always remember, that we are as human, is really really nothing in this universe.