Re: URL Encoding

[Anonymous]

John Burns wrote:

> URLEncoder.encode encodes the entire document. I think you just want to
> encode your parameters( Netscape Navigator does choke on spaces in URL
> parameters). Just use a StringBuffer object to replace all occurrences of a
> space in your parameters  with the ASCII hex representation,  "%20". When you
> get it back, it will be translated back to spaces for you. Make sure that you
> use name/value pairs in the URL. They should look like this on the way out:
> "http://host:8080/servlet/YourServlet?param1=first%20Param,param2=second%20par
> am".

Actually, spaces are treated specially in URL encoding, and may be
represented by '+' -- and name-value pairs should be separated by '&'
as in:

http://host:8080/servlet/YourServlet?param1=first+Param&param2=second+param

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