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Posted to user@commons.apache.org by Jim the Standing Bear <st...@gmail.com> on 2008/05/07 20:27:29 UTC

a question about URL encoding

Hello,

I read somewhere that the URL Encoding of the space character can be
either %20 or +.  The behavior of the URLEncoders from both
commons-codec and jdk converts spaces to +.  Is there anyway to force
the URLEncoder to convert spaces to %20 instead?  Thanks.

- Jim

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Re: a question about URL encoding

Posted by Jim the Standing Bear <st...@gmail.com>.
Thanks Jörg.  It is indeed an excellent summary of the situation.

- Jim

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Jörg Schaible
<Jo...@elsag-solutions.com> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
>
>
>  Jim the Standing Bear wrote:
>  > Hello,
>  >
>  > I read somewhere that the URL Encoding of the space character can be
>  > either %20 or +.  The behavior of the URLEncoders from both
>  > commons-codec and jdk converts spaces to +.  Is there anyway to force
>  > the URLEncoder to convert spaces to %20 instead?  Thanks.
>
>  Benjamin Bentman created a quite valuable summary of the situation for the Maven devs: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.turbine.maven.devel/83251/focus=85098
>
>  - Jörg
>
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RE: a question about URL encoding

Posted by Jörg Schaible <Jo...@Elsag-Solutions.com>.
Hi Jim,

Jim the Standing Bear wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I read somewhere that the URL Encoding of the space character can be
> either %20 or +.  The behavior of the URLEncoders from both
> commons-codec and jdk converts spaces to +.  Is there anyway to force
> the URLEncoder to convert spaces to %20 instead?  Thanks.

Benjamin Bentman created a quite valuable summary of the situation for the Maven devs: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.turbine.maven.devel/83251/focus=85098

- Jörg

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