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

%3A and %2F are URL encoded characters. Use this java code to convert them back into : and /

String decoded = java.net.URLDecoder.decode(url, "UTF-8");