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java.net
class URLEncoder

java.lang.Object extended by java.net.URLEncoder 
public class URLEncoder
extends Object

Utility class for HTML form encoding. This class contains static methods for converting a String to the application/x-www-form-urlencoded MIME format. For more information about HTML form encoding, consult the HTML specification.

When encoding a String, the following rules apply:

For example using UTF-8 as the encoding scheme the string "The string ü@foo-bar" would get converted to "The+string+%C3%BC%40foo-bar" because in UTF-8 the character ü is encoded as two bytes C3 (hex) and BC (hex), and the character @ is encoded as one byte 40 (hex).

See Also (auto-generated):

URL

StringBuffer

URLDecoder

Method Summary
static String
encode(String s)

          Translates a string into x-www-form-urlencoded format.
static String
encode(String s, String enc)

          Translates a string into application/x-www-form-urlencoded format using a specific encoding scheme.
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Method Detail

encode

public static String encode(String s)
Translates a string into x-www-form-urlencoded format. This method uses the platform's default encoding as the encoding scheme to obtain the bytes for unsafe characters.

Parameters:
s - String to be translated.
Returns:
the translated String.

encode

public static String encode(String s,
                            String enc)
                     throws UnsupportedEncodingException
Translates a string into application/x-www-form-urlencoded format using a specific encoding scheme. This method uses the supplied encoding scheme to obtain the bytes for unsafe characters.

Note: The World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation states that UTF-8 should be used. Not doing so may introduce incompatibilites.

Parameters:
s - String to be translated.
enc - The name of a supported character encoding.
Returns:
the translated String.
Throws:
UnsupportedEncodingException - If the named encoding is not supported
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