Question

I have the following URL:

https://api-test.company.com/contacts?q=email=“[e-mail]”

I am parsing it using:

String URL = "https://api-test.company.com/contacts?" + URLEncoder.encode("q=email=[e-mail]", "UTF-8");

I have also tried “ISO-8859-1”, but both return this for my URL:

https://api-test.homeaway.com/contacts?q%3Demail%3Djlowder%40homeaway.com

In order to receive the correct response from my server, I need the url to be:

https://api-test.company.com/contacts?q=email=[e-mail]%22

The %22 is the ” ” marks around the email address.

How do I go about forming the correct URL? None of the examples I can find do this..

Answer 1

If you really want this, then you have to put the quotes also into the string:

String URL = "https://api-test.company.com/contacts?q=email=" + URLEncoder.encode("\"[e-mail]\"", "UTF-8");

gives:
https://api-test.company.com/contacts?q=email=%22jlowder%40company.com%22

btw.: You want to name that String url, not URL.