Bug 21485 – URL regular expression fails on long strings

• Component: JavaScriptCore
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Patrick Johnson]

The following regular expression fails if given a string longer than 450 characters:

  /^((\w+):\/\/)(([^:]+):?([^@]+)?@)?([^\/\?:]*):?(\d+)?(\/?[^\?#]+)?\??([^#]+)?#?(.+)?/

This regex is used by the Selenium project to determine whether a string is a valid URL.

I have observed this in Safari 3.1.2 (on Windows) and Google Chrome/Chromium.

This is very possibly the same as:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18327

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

<rdar://problem/6279213>

[Patrick Johnson]

Created attachment 24201 [details]
Test case

[Barry Ferg]

*** Bug 24308 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Levin Alexander]

saw something that seems to be the same bug:  the ExtJs framework has a regular expression to validate email addresses:

  var mailrx = /^([\w]+)(.[\w]+)*@([\w-]+\.){1,5}([A-Za-z]){2,4}$/;

using this regular expression causes the following test cases to fail in Webkit Nightlies and the Safari 4 beta

  testRegularExpressionMatching: function() {
    this.assert("[e-mail]".match(mailrx));    /* fails */    
    this.assert("[e-mail]".match(mailrx));     /* passes */
    this.assert("[e-mail]".match(mailrx)); /* fails */
  },

(This is on OS X 10.5 with all updates, the Safari 4 beta installed and using WebKit r41707)

[Geoffrey Garen]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18327 ***