Java URL encoding of query string parameters

Question

Say I have a URL

http://example.com/query?q=

and I have a query entered by the user such as:

random word £500 bank

Answer 1

You need to first create a URI like:

String urlStr = "http://www.example.com/CEREC® Materials & Accessories/IPS Empress® CAD.pdf"
URL url= new URL(urlStr);
URI uri = new URI(url.getProtocol(), url.getUserInfo(), url.getHost(), url.getPort(), url.getPath(), url.getQuery(), url.getRef());

Then convert that Uri to ASCII string:

urlStr=uri.toASCIIString();

Now your url string is completely encoded first we did simple url encoding and then we converted it to ASCII String to make sure no character outside US-ASCII are remaining in string. This is exactly how browsers do.