refs #9178
- this util uses the url services (!)
- moving this file into lib would not make sense right now
- that would mean a module requires first ../lib/url, which then requires ../services/url
- the url service definitely need a clean up 😃
refs #9178
- we have to take care that we don't end up in circular dependencies
- e.g. API requires UrlService and UrlService needs to require the API (for requesting data)
- update the references
- we would like to get rid of the utils folder, this is/was the most complicated change
