response code: 400 from google images

[Miran Cvenkel]

address = "http://images.google.com/images?q="Arcyptera fusca""

  URL url = new URL(address);
  in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream()));

-->

  "Server returned HTTP response code: 400 for URL: http://images.google.com/images?q="Arcyptera fusca""

No need to tell, if I put that address into browser it works.
Should that work, I tryed to escape, no effect ?

[Campbell Ritchie]

Try changing the space to its HTML escape which is something like %20.

[Miran Cvenkel]

Yeah, managed to do it:

"http://images.google.com/images?tbm=isch&q=" +  escapeChars.forURL("\"" + p3 + "\"")

[Rob Spoor]

Campbell Ritchie wrote:Try changing the space to its HTML escape which is something like %20.

It's %22 for double quotes.

Miran Cvenkel wrote:Yeah, managed to do it:

"http://images.google.com/images?tbm=isch&q=" +  escapeChars.forURL("\"" + p3 + "\"")

You can also use URLEncoder:

"http://images.google.com/images?tbm=isch&q=" +  URLEncoder.encode("\"" + p3 + "\"", "UTF-8")

Unfortunately there is an UnsupportedEncodingException that can be thrown so you'd need to handle that. However, it's a sub class of IOException, and you probably already have to handle IOException for the rest of the networking code, so that shouldn't be a problem.