diff --git a/src/ng/directive/input.js b/src/ng/directive/input.js
index e10cda38c217..ef3165bcd0b6 100644
--- a/src/ng/directive/input.js
+++ b/src/ng/directive/input.js
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 // Regex code is obtained from SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3143070/javascript-regex-iso-datetime#answer-3143231
 var ISO_DATE_REGEXP = /\d{4}-[01]\d-[0-3]\dT[0-2]\d:[0-5]\d:[0-5]\d\.\d+([+-][0-2]\d:[0-5]\d|Z)/;
 // See valid URLs in RFC3987 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3987)
-var URL_REGEXP = /^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z\d.+-]*:\/*(?:\w+(?::\w+)?@)?[^\s/]+(?::\d+)?(?:\/[\w#!:.?+=&%@\-/]*)?$/;
+var URL_REGEXP = /^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z\d.+-]*:\/*(?:\w+(?::\w+)?@)?[^\s/]+(?::\d+)?(?:\/[\w#!:.?+=&%@\-/\[\]$'\(\)\*\,\;\~]*)?$/;
 var EMAIL_REGEXP = /^[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~.-]+@[a-z0-9]([a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?(\.[a-z0-9]([a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?)*$/i;
 var NUMBER_REGEXP = /^\s*(\-|\+)?(\d+|(\d*(\.\d*)))([eE][+-]?\d+)?\s*$/;
 var DATE_REGEXP = /^(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})$/;
diff --git a/test/ng/directive/inputSpec.js b/test/ng/directive/inputSpec.js
index 207c71ce56e2..77ee82ec1a00 100644
--- a/test/ng/directive/inputSpec.js
+++ b/test/ng/directive/inputSpec.js
@@ -2544,11 +2544,13 @@ describe('input', function() {
         expect(URL_REGEXP.test('mailto:user@example.com?subject=Foo')).toBe(true);
         expect(URL_REGEXP.test('r2-d2.c3-p0://localhost/foo')).toBe(true);
         expect(URL_REGEXP.test('abc:/foo')).toBe(true);
+        expect(URL_REGEXP.test('http://example.com/path;path')).toBe(true);
+        expect(URL_REGEXP.test('http://example.com/[]$\'()*,~)')).toBe(true);
         expect(URL_REGEXP.test('http:')).toBe(false);
         expect(URL_REGEXP.test('a@B.c')).toBe(false);
         expect(URL_REGEXP.test('a_B.c')).toBe(false);
         expect(URL_REGEXP.test('0scheme://example.com')).toBe(false);
-        expect(URL_REGEXP.test('http://example.com:9999/~~``')).toBe(false);
+        expect(URL_REGEXP.test('http://example.com:9999/``')).toBe(false);
       });
     });
   });