Question

My requirement is i want to save some data in database by using web-services. it’s working fine up to without spaces between the words.

my problem starts from here if entered text (getting text from EditText) having spaces i am getting this error.

Illegal character in path at index 103: 

these are the strings from edittext : news as, news db.

this is the code

try {   
   HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
   HttpContext localContext = new BasicHttpContext();

  HttpPost postRequest = new HttpPost("mwweb" +channel_token+"/" +data_src_id+
                    "/"+ title+"/"+details);      
  HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(postRequest, localContext);
  BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(response.getEntity().getContent(), "UTF-8"));

  String sResponse = reader.readLine();
  System.out.println(" response" +sResponse);


  } catch (Exception e) {            
    Log.e(e.getClass().getName(), e.getMessage());    
 }

EDIT: i got half of the solution from Android, weakwire suggetions , if i use this replaceAll(” “, “%20”) working if text have only spaces. if i use encoding working if text have special charecters, did’t get for spaces . i want the solution for both(means text having spaces and special charecters).

Answer 1

Url is not encoded. Also URLEncoder.encode will not help you unless you apply it to each argument seperatly. You can try this

String url="myurl" +channel_token+"/" data_src_id+"/"+ title+"/"+details); 
 url=url.replace(" ","%20");
HttpPost postRequest = new HttpPost(url);

or

channel_token=URLEncoder.encode(channel_token, "UTF-8");
data_src_id=URLEncoder.encode(data_src_id, "UTF-8");

… etc for all the arguments