FormatURLs
FormatURLs is a generic utility concept used to transform one or more URL strings into standardized, display-friendly, and safe representations. It can be implemented as a function or library in many programming languages and is commonly used in web applications to render links, validate input, or compare URLs for deduplication.
Its core capabilities include normalization, validation, encoding, and display formatting. Normalization may trim whitespace, lower-case the
Security and safety considerations are central. Any output should be escaped in HTML contexts to prevent XSS.
Usage scenarios include rendering lists of links, logging and analytics, or de-duplicating URLs in datasets. It
Common configurable options include maximum length, display mode, whether to preserve or strip the query, whether