Oh, BTW, use encodeRedirectURL for all redirects...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vinay K.V. Menon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 3:31 AM
Subject: Passing spaces in query strings
> Hi all!
> I am having a problem passing parameters with spaces in the middle
to
> servlets.
> I tried encodeUrl but it does not seem to encode the spaces with
+'s. So I
> looked up the archive and found that I could use the URLEncoder.encode
> method. Well, this method seems to be working fine as far as converting
the
> spaces to +'s go but when I try to do an encodeUrl of that string and a
> sendRedirect it seems to be failing. Here is what I am trying to do,
>
>
response.sendRedirect(response.encodeUrl(java.net.URLEncoder.encode(sURL)));
>
> And for one of the cases with spaces here is what I get,
>
> 500 Internal Server Error
>
> The servlet named invoker at the requested URL
>
>
>
http://localhost/servlet/polyx.application.FileDeleteServlet?AREAID=A1&DOCUM
> ENTID=4&FILENAME=Article+Writer+Functional+Specifications.doc
>
> reported this exception
>
>
polyx.application.FileDeleteServlet?AREAID=A1&DOCUMENTID=4&FILENAME=Article+
> Writer+Functional+Specifications.doc:
>
>
polyx.application.FileDeleteServlet?AREAID=A1&DOCUMENTID=4&FILENAME=Article+
> Writer+Functional+Specifications.doc. Please report this to the
> administrator of the web server
>
> when I click the URL[above url that comes in the error message] in the
> browser it works! Can somebody tell me how to go anbout handling spaces?
>
> IE seems to encode the URL directly without the use of the
URLEncoder but
> including the URLEncoder.encode methid it does not work in IE either.
>
> Thanks and advance
>
> Vinay
>
>
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