URLEncoder

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## java.net
Class URLEncoder

    java.lang.Object
      java.net.URLEncoder

    public class URLEncoder

extends Object

Utility class for HTML form encoding. This class contains static methods for converting a String to the `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` MIME format. For more information about HTML form encoding, consult the HTML specification.

When encoding a String, the following rules apply:

- The alphanumeric characters "`a`" through "`z`", "`A`" through "`Z`" and "`0`" through "`9`" remain the same.
- The special characters "`.`", "`-`", "`*`", and "`_`" remain the same.
- The space character "`` " is converted into a plus sign "`+`".
- All other characters are unsafe and are first converted into one or more bytes using some encoding scheme. Then each byte is represented by the 3-character string "`%xy`", where xy is the two-digit hexadecimal representation of the byte. The recommended encoding scheme to use is UTF-8. However, for compatibility reasons, if an encoding is not specified, then the default encoding of the platform is used.

For example using UTF-8 as the encoding scheme the string "The string ü@foo-bar" would get converted to "The+string+%C3%BC%40foo-bar" because in UTF-8 the character ü is encoded as two bytes C3 (hex) and BC (hex), and the character @ is encoded as one byte 40 (hex).

Since:
  JDK1.0
Version:
  1.18, 02/02/00
Author:
  Herb Jellinek

Method Summary
`static String` | `encode(String s)` Deprecated. The resulting string may vary depending on the platform's default encoding. Instead, use the encode(String,String) method to specify the encoding.
`static String` | `encode(String s, String enc)` Translates a string into `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` format using a specific encoding scheme.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

Method Detail

### encode

    public static String encode(String s)

  Deprecated. The resulting string may vary depending on the platform's default encoding. Instead, use the encode(String,String) method to specify the encoding.

  Translates a string into `x-www-form-urlencoded` format. This method uses the platform's default encoding as the encoding scheme to obtain the bytes for unsafe characters.

  Parameters:
    `s` - `String` to be translated.
  Returns:
    the translated `String`.

### encode

    public static String encode(String s,
                                String enc)
                         throws UnsupportedEncodingException

  Translates a string into `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` format using a specific encoding scheme. This method uses the supplied encoding scheme to obtain the bytes for unsafe characters.

  Note: The World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation states that UTF-8 should be used. Not doing so may introduce incompatibilites.

  Parameters:
    `s` - `String` to be translated.
    `enc` - The name of a supported character encoding.
  Returns:
    the translated `String`.
  Throws:
    `UnsupportedEncodingException` - If the named encoding is not supported
  Since:
    1.4
  See Also:
    `URLDecoder.decode(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)`

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