Validating url with jQuery without the validate-plugin?

Question

I need to validate a url in variable with jQuery, but can\'t use validate-plugin. Is there a simple way to do this?

Answer 1

yes with a regex:

/^(http|https|ftp):\/\/[a-z0-9]+([\-\.]{1}[a-z0-9]+)*\.[a-z]{2,5}(:[0-9]{1,5})?(\/.*)?$/ix