In the Java world URL/URI/URN construction, escaping, unescaping, manipulation is a confusing disparate buggy mess. Of course there is the obvious broken `java

In the Java world URL/URI/URN construction, escaping, unescaping, manipulation is a confusing disparate buggy mess. Of course there is the obvious broken `java.net.URL` but there are so many other libraries and coding practices where programmers just continuously screw up URL/URI/URNs over and over and over. It is like XML/HTML escaping but seems to be far more rampant in my experience (thankfully most templating languages now escape automatically). In large part I believe this is because of the confusion of form encoding and because of the URI specs following later that supersede the URL specs (but actually are not entirely compatible). In our code base alone we use like 8 different URL/URI libraries. HTTP Components/Client (both 3 and 4), Spring has its own stuff, JAX-RS aka Jersey has its own stuff, the builtin crappy misnamed URLEncoder, the not that flexibile java.net.URI, several others that I can't recall. I'm surprised Guava hasn't joined in the game as well. I would love a small decoupled URL/URI/URN library that does shit easily and correctly. URL templates would be nice as well. I have contemplated writing it several times.