On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Constantin Nickonov wrote:

> Does someone have a Java method handy to encode a String to mimic a GET
> form method, i.e., convert something like:
>
>   name=Steve Smith
>
> to
>
>   name=Steve+Smith
>
> I am writing a servlet, which must generate a URL outside a form (which
> does this automatically). Spaces and special characters are changed to
> comply with URL specs.

java.net.URLEncoder.encode().

(There isn't really an inverse to this -- don't know why they don't
just have a decode() method in the same class.)

Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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