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public class URLEncoder extends Object
Utility class for HTML form encoding. This class contains static methods for converting a String to theapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedMIME format. For more information about HTML form encoding, consult the HTML specification.When encoding a String, the following rules apply:
- The alphanumeric characters "
a" through "z", "A" through "Z" and "0" through "9" remain the same. - The special characters "
.", "-", "*", and "_" remain the same. - The space character "
+". - All other characters are unsafe and are first converted into
one or more bytes using some encoding scheme. Then each byte is
represented by the 3-character string
"
%xy", where xy is the two-digit hexadecimal representation of the byte. The recommended encoding scheme to use is UTF-8. However, for compatibility reasons, if an encoding is not specified, then the default encoding of the platform is used.
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).
- Since:
- JDK1.0
- The alphanumeric characters "
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Method Summary
Methods Modifier and Type Method and Description static Stringencode(String s)Deprecated.The resulting string may vary depending on the platform's default encoding. Instead, use the encode(String,String) method to specify the encoding.static Stringencode(String s, String enc)Translates a string intoapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedformat using a specific encoding scheme.
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Method Detail
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encode
@Deprecated public static String encode(String s)
Deprecated. The resulting string may vary depending on the platform's default encoding. Instead, use the encode(String,String) method to specify the encoding.Translates a string intox-www-form-urlencodedformat. This method uses the platform's default encoding as the encoding scheme to obtain the bytes for unsafe characters.- Parameters:
s-Stringto be translated.- Returns:
- the translated
String.
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encode
public static String encode(String s, String enc) throws UnsupportedEncodingException
Translates a string intoapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedformat 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-Stringto be translated.enc- The name of a supported character encoding.- Returns:
- the translated
String. - Throws:
UnsupportedEncodingException- If the named encoding is not supported- Since:
- 1.4
- See Also:
URLDecoder.decode(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)
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