>>>>>>I believe the ut could easily 'recognize' those. It's just a matter of changing a regex imo
>>>>>
>>>>>What regex would you suggest?
>>>>
>>>>One that does not stop before a closing parenthesis
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Compare
>>>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa172799SQL.80.aspx
>>>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa172799SQL.80.a
>>>>
>>>>and
>>>>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa172799(SQL.80).aspx
>>>>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa172799(SQL.80).a
>>>
>>>What about
>>>(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa172799SQL.80.aspx)
>>>(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa172799SQL.80.a)
>>
>>Ok, I see the point
>>
>>Still, you can make a pattern that does not accept a ) as the last char.. Something like
>>
>>
>>

>>((http[s]?|ftp)://[\w/.()-]+[\w/.(-])
>>

>>
>>it will match
>>

>>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa172799(SQL.80).aspx
>>
>>and 
>>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa172799SQL.80.aspx
>>
>>in 
>>
>>(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa172799SQL.80.aspx)
>>

>
>What about
>
>www.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa139615.aspx ?
>
>I think we may need to use two different patterns - one pattern would not cover all cases.
>
>May be hardcode aspx extension for cases allowing () inside.

(((http[s]?|ftp)://)|(www\.))[\w/.()-]+[\w/.(-]

if you need two patterns, you can make one

I would not treat aspx as a special case, who says () are not allowed in htm/html ?