decoding URL values

[Suresh Khant]

Hi All,

I have a servlet which receives data

for example :

http://test-machine:8080/DTWProject/DataServlet?Data=%44%06%48%06%2d%06%29%06

I have the following questions
Q1 : Is it possible to save the received data as it is , for above example , i want to data save as

%44%06%48%06%2d%06%29%06

in database

Q2 : How to decode above Data

%44%06%48%06%2d%06%29%06

to its original string ?

[Edit by Bear: added more descriptive subject]

[Bear Bibeault]

Suresh Khant wrote:
Q1 : Is it possible to save the received data as it is , for above example , i want to data save as

%44%06%48%06%2d%06%29%06

in database

Why? That doesn't seem like a reasonable thing to do.

In any case, the value will be automatically decoded by getParameter(). You can re-encode it, if you wish, with java.net.URLEncoder.

Q2 : How to decode above Data

%44%06%48%06%2d%06%29%06

to its original string ?

As I said, this will happened automatically.

In general, to decode use java.net.URLDecoder.

[Suresh Khant]

Thanks for your reply,

I have used the UrlDecoder

                String data = request.getParameter("Data");
		System.out.println("Data = "+data);
		
		System.out.println("After url decoding Data = "+URLDecoder.decode(request.getParameter("Data"), "UTF-16BE"));

but getting squares

17:48:57,551 INFO  [STDOUT] Data = DH-)
17:48:57,551 INFO  [STDOUT] After url decoding Data = DH-)

[Paul Clapham]

Well, of course you are. What did you expect to get from %06?