Question

I’ve got a resource on my server named:

some image.png

There’s a space in the name. When I type the url into the browser (chrome), it’s transforming the space into %20:

some%20.png

WHen I use URLEncoder.encode(“some image.png”) from my application, I’m getting:

some+image.png

which causes a 404. What’s the right way to encode?

Answer 1

http://www.permadi.com/tutorial/urlEncoding/

Note that because the character is very commonly used, a special code ( the “+” sign) has been reserved as its URL encoding. Thus the string “A B” can be URL encoded as either “A%20B” or “A+B”

However, your code is probably failing because some parsers/web servers do not handle them equally for base URL portions – and only recognize + = space in the querystring portion