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JavaScript port of URL regex from http://stackoverflow.com/a/190405/384062, including a bug fix and some performance refactoring
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@dafeso
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dafeso commented Jan 8, 2016

Thanks.

@matthewbordas
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matthewbordas commented Feb 15, 2017

A .NET port for c# would be amazing <3 Thank you so much for all your hard work!

@1Jesper1
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This would not match, while it is accepted in Chrome and Firefox url type validation.
pmvu://C:\test.pdf

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