HTTP URL Address Encoding in Java

Question

My Java standalone application gets a URL (which points to a file) from the user and I need to hit it and download it. The problem I am facing is that I am not able to encod

Answer 1

Nitpicking: a string containing a whitespace character by definition is not a URI. So what you're looking for is code that implements the URI escaping defined in Section 2.1 of RFC 3986.