Question

We have a java application which sends sms. We have 2 two variable set as below.Then it goes through an encoding process. The problem now it works fine but after the &Time…. the message is not delivered? So what other encoding mechanism should I work on?

String smsMessage = "Asset:TEST1\nSerial ID:Test1\nEvent:Arrive\nDate&Time:2012-04-26 21:06:37\nEvent Location:Location1";
String fullMessageLink="user=tt1&password=tt11&api_id=2211&to=1234567&text="+smsMessage;

URI uri = new URI(
        "http", 
        "api.clickatell.com", 
        "/http/sendmsg",
        fullMessageLink,
        null);

 String request = uri.toASCIIString();

Answer 1

The ampersand & is used as the separator between URL parameters. Notice the &'s in the fullMessageLink. To pass a string with an & it is you need to URL encode the value.

Use the URLEncoder class to perform the encoding.