Ask HN: Is there a tool to generate arbitrary URLs?

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I would like to test a little script of mine which normalizes URLs.

It would be awesome if there would be some tool to generate arbitrary URLs, probably configurable in some ways (e.g. add 1-n query params, generate URLs with percent-encoded octets etc.).

Does anyone know of such a tool?

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1. Google a regex for URLs.

2. Google some tool that, given a regex, generates strings matching the regex.

3. Combine the two.

4. If (more likely: when) you think the generated URLs need to cover some part of the URL space more, tweak the regex.

Instead of regular expressions you could also use a BNF grammar for URLs and a tool that generates valid strings in that grammar.

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