RFC2396 does list '^' as one of the 'unwise' characters. The inference is that '^' should be escaped, though the RFC does not say so explicitly.
The Java API docs on URI and URLencode, OTOH, recommend always using URI rather than URLEncode, converting from URI to URL only as needed, using toURL. The API refs exact words: Note, the URI class does perform escaping of its component fields in certain circumstances. The recommended way to manage the encoding and decoding of URLs is to use URI, and to convert between these two classes using toURI() and URI.toURL(). The URLEncoder and URLDecoder classes can also be used, but only for HTML form encoding, which is not the same as the encoding scheme defined in RFC2396. On Feb 13, 11:55 pm, ivanchan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to use HttpGet to fetch some data from yahoo finace, the > whole url is > "http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=^DJI";, from the log I gucess it > complains > about the '^' character, what is the right way to solve this problem? > Thanks. > > E/AndroidRuntime( 287): java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal > character i > n query at index 32:http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=^DJI > E/AndroidRuntime( 287): at java.net.URI.create(URI.java:970) > E/AndroidRuntime( 287): at > org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet.<init> > (HttpGet.java:75) > E/AndroidRuntime( 287): at > Ivan.stock.droid.HttpHelper.connect(HttpHelpe > > Regards, > Ivan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en
