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Geert released a new version of the RIFE2 framework. As I was browsing through his code, I noticed he was using java.net.URLEncoder to encode URLs. I sent him a toot indicating he should probably fix that. URLEncoder is quite inefficient and potentially risky in the way it encodes spaces.

He quickly got to work and came up with a pretty elegant solution, which got me thinking that it would be a good idea to turn it into a standalone library.

I started working on a Kotlin implementation, and Geert followed with a Java version.

Both libraries are now available on GitHub and Maven Central:

• UrlEncoder for Java: gbevin/urlencoder
• UrlEncoder for Kotlin: ethauvin/urlencoder

They both are small, efficient and have no dependencies.

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