Question

In my app there is an issue regarding the password.The problem occurs when a password ends with a + symbol,and while posting the url i got the response as user not found.If any one know the solutions plz help..I think the problem is with encoding of + symbol.so how can i send a password contain + symbol to the server?This is my code for posting url.’

    public void doPost (String email,String password) throws UnsupportedEncodingException, SprinklrHttpException{
        try{
                HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(url).openConnection();
                connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
                connection.setDoOutput(true);
                OutputStream ostream=connection.getOutputStream();
                String serverMsg=null;             
                    serverMsg="email="+email+"&password="+password;
                    Log.i("tag","servermsg="+serverMsg);                
                ostream.write(serverMsg.getBytes());
                ostream.close();
                InputStream istream=connection.getInputStream();
                response=convertStreamToString(istream);                
                istream.close();
                }catch(Exception e){
                    e.printStackTrace();
                    }
                }
     private void executeRequest(HttpUriRequest request) throws SprinklrHttpException{
        HttpResponse httpResponse;
        InputStream inputStream = null;
        HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
        httpClient.getParams().setParameter(ClientPNames.COOKIE_POLICY, CookiePolicy.BROWSER_COMPATIBILITY);
        try {
            httpResponse = httpClient.execute(request, this.httpContext);
            this.responseCode = httpResponse.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
            Log.i("webResponse","responsecode"+this.responseCode);
            this.message = httpResponse.getStatusLine().getReasonPhrase();
            HttpEntity entity = httpResponse.getEntity();
            if (entity != null) {
                inputStream = entity.getContent();
                this.response = convertStreamToString(inputStream);
            }
        }catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
            httpClient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
            e.printStackTrace();
        }catch (IOException e) {
            httpClient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
            e.printStackTrace();
        throw new SprinklrHttpException(1000,"");
        }finally {
            if (inputStream != null){
                try {
                    inputStream.close();
                }                   
                     catch (IOException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        }      

Answer 1

REPLACE

serverMsg="email="+email+"&password="+password;

WITH

serverMsg="email="+URLEncoder.encode(email, "utf-8")+"&password="+URLEncoder.encode(password, "utf-8");