How to normalize a URL in Java?

Question

URL normalization (or URL canonicalization) is the process by which URLs are modified and standardized in a consistent manner. The goal of the normalization p

Answer 1

No, there is nothing in the standard libraries to do this. Canonicalization includes things like decoding unnecessarily encoded characters, converting hostnames to lowercase, etc.

e.g. http://ACME.com/./foo%26bar becomes:

http://acme.com/foo&bar

URI's normalize() does not do this.