Special charecters in URL

[Neeraj Vij]

Hi,

I need to pass special charecters in a querystring when I click on a hyperlink.

charecters like #, ^, spaces.. how to do it.

please help.

Thanks,
Neeraj.

[Katrina Owen]

Hi there,

If you find the hex value of the characters you need to pass in, you can use those.

the hexadecimal value for a space is 20, and in a URL you can encode this as %20
the caret is %5E
the pound character is %23

I'm sure some good references should come up if you google "url encoding" or "url hex encoding"

[Ben Souther]

java.net.URLEncoder can do this for you.

[Neeraj Vij]

Hi,

Thanks for the help.

but we are using jdk1.4 in our project. so looking for a different solution.

thanks,
Neeraj.

[Ulf Dittmer]

but we are using jdk1.4 in our project. so looking for a different solution.

That class has been there since Java 1.0.

[Neeraj Vij]

Hi,

I was using eclipse 3.0. URLEncoder class gave error.

let me check and update.

Thanks,
Neeraj.

[Ben Souther]

Follow the link I posted to that API page.
Notice that there is a deprecated version of encode and a newer version that takes two arguments (which has been there since version 1.4).

Maybe you were using the deprecated version?