diff --git a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/rippers/LusciousRipper.java b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/rippers/LusciousRipper.java
index 5637ed1b..9a57b06f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/rippers/LusciousRipper.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/rarchives/ripme/ripper/rippers/LusciousRipper.java
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.URLEncoder;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
@@ -27,10 +29,10 @@ public class LusciousRipper extends AbstractHTMLRipper {
     }
 
     @Override
-    public URL sanitizeURL(URL url) throws MalformedURLException {
+    public URL sanitizeURL(URL url) throws MalformedURLException, URISyntaxException{
         String URLToReturn = url.toExternalForm();
         URLToReturn = URLToReturn.replaceAll("https?://(?:www\\.)?luscious\\.", "https://old.luscious.");
-        URL san_url = new URL(URLToReturn);
+        URL san_url = new URI(URLToReturn).toURL();
         LOGGER.info("sanitized URL is " + san_url.toExternalForm());
         return san_url;
     }