# URI Management

The functionality for handling URIs is placed in the following modules:

## Parsing URIs

The HTParse module provides functions for parsing URIs, simplify them by removing redundant information. This is automatically called by the Anchor manager every time an anchor is created in order to minimize the number of redundant anchors.

## URI Encoding and Decoding

The HTEscape module can search a URI for unsafe characteres and escape and unescape them according to the URI Specifications.