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Hi.
Is there any good multiplatform library for handling URIs?

what sort of handling?

Ktor has a <https://api.ktor.io/ktor-http/io.ktor.http/-url/index.html|URL> class, and a builder util

I need to be able parse URIs with custom protocols (i.e. not only http/https/ftp) and access its components.

there’s an official regex for URIs <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986#appendix-B> - would that work?

Probably. I will explore that option. Thanks!

just be aware that regex depends on the underlying engine of the target, so it’s not truly multiplatform :grimacing: <https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-49557> But so long as you’re only using the basics, it should be fine.

I’ve been using `ktor-http` in my <https://copper-leaf.github.io/ballast/wiki/modules/ballast-navigation/|Ballast Navigation> library. It does work pretty well, but it’s a very large dependency, bringing in a bunch of other HTTP stuff beyond just URI parsing.

I’ve been looking to replace Ktor with <https://github.com/eygraber/uri-kmp|this library>, which is considerably smaller. At the time that I first released Ballast Navigation, there were some KMP targets I was supporting that it didn’t, but I believe those were the targets that were recently deprecated, so shouldn’t be a problem anymore