How to do URL decoding in Java?

Question

In Java, I want to convert this:

https%3A%2F%2Fmywebsite%2Fdocs%2Fenglish%2Fsite%2Fmybook.do%3Frequest_type

To thi

Answer 1

The string you've got is in application/x-www-form-urlencoded encoding.

Use URLDecoder to convert it to Java String.

URLDecoder.decode( url, "UTF-8" );