> At best this lets you conclude that a URL could be valid. Is that really usefu...

		masklinn on June 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In search of the perfect URL validation regex > At best this lets you conclude that a URL could be valid. Is that really useful? It's useful to find and linkify URLs in text (e.g. in your HN comments, how do you think HN makes http://foo.com into a link?)

That's not the premise laid out on the linked page.