[go-nuts] [ANN] Purell, a tiny Go library to normalize URLs

Hi again, gophers,

While working on an upcoming web crawler library (gocrawl, not ready yet,
I'll post when it is, but you can follow development on github
https://github.com/PuerkitoBio/gocrawl) I had to back off as something was
missing. So here is a new library, purell, to normalize URLs:

https://github.com/PuerkitoBio/purell

Basically, you feed it a URL (either in string or *url.URL format) and you
bitwise-or some flags, and it will apply the normalization manipulations
you requested. It is heavily based on wikipedia's article on URL
normalization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_normalization). The README
contains some examples and a link to the full godoc reference, and there is
a rather comprehensive test suite.

Hopefully it may be useful to some of you. It will certainly be useful in
gocrawl.

As a side note, the more I use Go, the more I love it. So a big thank you
to all the people behind Go.

Thanks,
Martin Angers

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