diff --git a/src/addons/webLinks/webLinks.test.ts b/src/addons/webLinks/webLinks.test.ts
index 1423e01039..da5569ab81 100644
--- a/src/addons/webLinks/webLinks.test.ts
+++ b/src/addons/webLinks/webLinks.test.ts
@@ -183,4 +183,30 @@ describe('webLinks addon', () => {
       assert.equal(uri, 'http://bar.io/');
     });
   });
+
+  describe('should allow + character in URI path', () => {
+    it('foo.com', () => {
+      const term = new MockTerminal();
+      webLinks.webLinksInit(<any>term);
+
+      const row = 'http://foo.com/subpath/+/id';
+
+      const match = row.match(term.regex);
+      const uri = match[term.options.matchIndex];
+
+      assert.equal(uri, 'http://foo.com/subpath/+/id');
+    });
+
+    it('bar.io', () => {
+      const term = new MockTerminal();
+      webLinks.webLinksInit(<any>term);
+
+      const row = 'http://bar.io/subpath/+/id';
+
+      const match = row.match(term.regex);
+      const uri = match[term.options.matchIndex];
+
+      assert.equal(uri, 'http://bar.io/subpath/+/id');
+    });
+  });
 });
diff --git a/src/addons/webLinks/webLinks.ts b/src/addons/webLinks/webLinks.ts
index 9ebc869292..8a0fec097f 100644
--- a/src/addons/webLinks/webLinks.ts
+++ b/src/addons/webLinks/webLinks.ts
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ const ipClause = '((\\d{1,3}\\.){3}\\d{1,3})';
 const localHostClause = '(localhost)';
 const portClause = '(:\\d{1,5})';
 const hostClause = '((' + domainBodyClause + '\\.' + tldClause + ')|' + ipClause + '|' + localHostClause + ')' + portClause + '?';
-const pathCharacterSet = '(\\/[\\/\\w\\.\\-%~:]*)*([^:"\'\\s])';
+const pathCharacterSet = '(\\/[\\/\\w\\.\\-%~:+]*)*([^:"\'\\s])';
 const pathClause = '(' + pathCharacterSet + ')?';
 const queryStringHashFragmentCharacterSet = '[0-9\\w\\[\\]\\(\\)\\/\\?\\!#@$%&\'*+,:;~\\=\\.\\-]*';
 const queryStringClause = '(\\?' + queryStringHashFragmentCharacterSet + ')?';