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

In addition to the Carlos Heuberger's reply: if a different than the default (80) is needed, the 7 param constructor should be used:

URI uri = new URI(
        "http",
        null, // this is for userInfo
        "www.google.com",
        8080, // port number as int
        "/ig/api",
        "weather=São Paulo",
        null);
String request = uri.toASCIIString();