Good info Indicator.. I did not read both APIs to know that either was better than the other... for URIs this is good to know.
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Indicator Veritatis <[email protected]>wrote: > 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]<android-beginners%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en > -- 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
