From 328b6961a26f8a0a40e630b6f9c4e0070928a32a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Prateek Shourya <prateekshourya29@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 13:20:27 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] [WEB-2605] fix: update URL regex pattern to allow complex
 links. (#5767)

---
 web/helpers/string.helper.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/web/helpers/string.helper.ts b/web/helpers/string.helper.ts
index 1182feeb0a..e4b4dc6651 100644
--- a/web/helpers/string.helper.ts
+++ b/web/helpers/string.helper.ts
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ export const isCommentEmpty = (comment: string | undefined): boolean => {
 export const checkURLValidity = (url: string): boolean => {
   if (!url) return false;
   // regex to match valid URLs (with or without http/https)
-  const urlPattern = /^(https?:\/\/)?([\da-z.-]+)\.([a-z]{2,6})(\/[\w.-]*)*\/?(\?[=&\w.-]*)?$/i;
+  const urlPattern = /^(https?:\/\/)?([\w.-]+\.[a-z]{2,6})(\/[\w\-.~:/?#[\]@!$&'()*+,;=%]*)?$/i;
   // test if the URL matches the pattern
   return urlPattern.test(url);
 };