JSLint reports "Insecure ^" for my regex -- what does that mean?

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Published on 2010-06-14T18:45:34Z Indexed on 2010/06/14 23:42 UTC
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I'm trying to get my Javascript code 100% JSLint clean.

I've got a regular expression:

 linkRgx = /https?:\/\/[^\s;|\\*'"!,()<>]+/g;

JSLint reports:

 Insecure '^'

What makes the use of the negation of the character set "insecure" ?

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