avoiding '#' '+' '%'

[Manoj John]

hi
In my application i am encrypting message using javax.crypto. and sending it through request. it is working fine but problem is whenever thereis an occurence of any one of these symbols '+' '#' '%' in the encrypted message
request.getParameter skipps that symbol and making problem on decryption.
please suggest any method to avoid these symbols.I tried with utf8 and ascii encoding with base64 encoder both give '+' symbols on encryption.

[Bear Bibeault]

You should be URL-encoding all parameters, encrypted or not.

[Manoj John]

thanks Bibeault


But can i make sure that the encoding will remove these unsafe and reserved characters by this code
-------------code--------
URLEncoder.encode("toEncode","UTF8")
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and Decode with
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URLDecoder.decode("toDecode","UTF8")
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or to use any other like ASCII like something..
am i in right way?
[ July 30, 2004: Message edited by: Manoj John ]

[Mike Cronin]

Yep,

import java.net.URLEncoder;

and...

URLEncoder.encode("Your Encrypted String", "UTF-8");

and that's it.


Mike Cronin
[ August 01, 2004: Message edited by: Mike Cronin ]