Removing White spaces from a string for http connection

Question

I am trying to send a query url

String url = String.format(
   "http://xxxxx/xxx/xxx&message=%s",myEditBox.getText.toString());
// Create a new HttpClient and Post Header
DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(url);
httpclient.getCookieStore().addCookie(cooki);
try {
   ResponseHandler<String> responseHandler = new BasicResponseHandler();
   httpclient.getParams().setParameter("http.connection-manager.timeout", 15000);
   String response = httpclient.execute(httppost, responseHandler);

gives me error, illegal character at query. That's white space probably. How to deal with this issue?

Best Regards

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3286067/url-encoding-in-android — Matthieu, Nov 01 '12 at 08:21
You can use URLEncoder for that Try these http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3286067/url-encoding-in-android http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3734844/how-to-url-encode-in-android — Amit Hooda, Nov 01 '12 at 08:22

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 01 '12 at 08:21

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You need to encode your url.

String query = URLEncoder.encode(myEditBox.getText.toString(), "utf-8");
String url = "http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=" + query;

answered Nov 01 '12 at 08:21

Chirag

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 01 '12 at 08:22

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Can you try

 httpclient.setRequestProperty("Accept-Charset","UTF-8");
 url="http://xxxxx/xxx/xxx&message="+URLEncoder.encode(myEditBox.getText.toString(), "UTF-8");

answered Nov 01 '12 at 08:22

anishsane

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Oh... I posted just 25 seconds late :D – anishsane Nov 01 '12 at 08:22

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 01 '12 at 08:31

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Try .trim() while get value from edittext. May be whitespace come from edittext and also use "utf-8".

see below code.

String value = URLEncoder.encode(myEditBox.getText.toString().trim(), "utf-8");
String url = "http://xxxxx/xxx/xxx&message=%s" + value;

answered Nov 01 '12 at 08:31

Arvind Kanjariya

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Removing White spaces from a string for http connection

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