diff --git a/distro/changelog.xml b/distro/changelog.xml
index fe4ce8a..65bddb3 100644
--- a/distro/changelog.xml
+++ b/distro/changelog.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 <ReleaseNotes>
+	<Changeset component="org.gcube.socialnetworking.social-util-library.1-2-1"
+		date="2017-11-13">
+		<Change>Fixed regex for urls (#10234)
+		</Change>
 	<Changeset component="org.gcube.socialnetworking.social-util-library.1-2-0"
 		date="2017-04-13">
 		<Change>Added method to remove html tags from a text (useful for #247)
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index bac13eb..6a61147 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 	<groupId>org.gcube.socialnetworking</groupId>
 	<artifactId>social-util-library</artifactId>
-	<version>1.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>1.2.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
 	<name>social-util-library</name>
 	<description>
 	The social-util-library contains utility functions that can be used by the social-networking portlets.
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/gcube/social_networking/socialutillibrary/Utils.java b/src/main/java/org/gcube/social_networking/socialutillibrary/Utils.java
index 196e1fd..012cc98 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/gcube/social_networking/socialutillibrary/Utils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/gcube/social_networking/socialutillibrary/Utils.java
@@ -49,12 +49,12 @@ public class Utils {
 					"(\\w+:\\w+@)?(([-\\w]+\\.)+(com|org|net|gov" + 
 					"|mil|biz|info|mobi|name|aero|jobs|museum" + 
 					"|travel|[a-z]{2,5}))(:[\\d]{1,5})?" + 
-					"(((\\/([-\\w~!$+|.,=]|%[a-f\\d]{2})+)+|\\/)+|\\?|#)?" + 
-					"((\\?([-\\w~!$+|.,*:]|%[a-f\\d{2}])+=?" + 
-					"([-\\w~!$+|.,*:=]|%[a-f\\d]{2})*)" + 
-					"(&(?:[-\\w~!$+|.,*:]|%[a-f\\d{2}])+=?" + 
-					"([-\\w~!$+|.,*:=]|%[a-f\\d]{2})*)*)*" + 
-			"(#([-\\w~!$+|.,*:=]|%[a-f\\d]{2})*)?\\b");
+					"(((\\/([-\\w~!$+|.,=]|%[a-fA-F\\d]{2})+)+|\\/)+|\\?|#)?" + 
+					"((\\?([-\\w~!$+|.,*:]|%[a-fA-F\\d{2}])+=?" + 
+					"([-\\w~!$+|.,*:=]|%[a-fA-F\\d]{2})*)" + 
+					"(&(?:[-\\w~!$+|.,*:]|%[a-fA-F\\d{2}])+=?" + 
+					"([-\\w~!$+|.,*:=]|%[a-fA-F\\d]{2})*)*)*" + 
+			"(#([-\\w~!$+|.,*:=]|%[a-fA-F\\d]{2})*)?\\b");
 
 	/**
 	 * 
@@ -267,6 +267,7 @@ public class Utils {
 		}
 		
 		Matcher matcher = URL_PATTERN.matcher(originalItem);
+		System.out.println(URL_PATTERN.pattern());
 		if(matcher.find()){
 			logger.debug("Found match url " + matcher.group());
 			item = matcher.group();
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/gcube/social_networking/socialutillibrary/TestUnit.java b/src/test/java/org/gcube/social_networking/socialutillibrary/TestUnit.java
index 099421d..99d132f 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/gcube/social_networking/socialutillibrary/TestUnit.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/gcube/social_networking/socialutillibrary/TestUnit.java
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ public class TestUnit {
 		System.out.println("Hashtags are " + hashtags);
 	}
 
-	//	@Test
+	//@Test
 	public void extractUrl(){
 
-		String url = "http tosajndjsa :httphttps://www.google.tv www.google.cloud  www https http (http://digirolamo.com: www.google.it https://next.d4science.org/group/nextnext/data-catalogue?path=/dataset/test_for_visibility";
-		String result = Utils.transformUrls(url);
+		String url = "https://virtuoso.parthenos.d4science.org/sparql?default-graph-uri=&query=%09SELECT+%3Fp+%28COUNT%28%3Fp%29+as+%3FpCount%29++%0D%0A%09%09%09%09%09WHERE+%7B%5B%5D+%3Fp+%5B%5D%7D%0D%0A%09%09%09%09%09GROUP+BY+%3Fp&format=text%2Fhtml&timeout=0&debug=on";
+		String result = Utils.extractURL(url);
 		System.out.println("urls are " + result);
 	}