NSURL with string %20

Question

I want the url of the webpage of whatever to look something like this:

foo.com/l=english&se=local&incEN=false&q=bob%20bob&

the problem here is that when i say

urlString = @"foo.com/l=english&se=local&incEN=false&q=bob%20bob&";
[self initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:urlString]];

I want the website url string to be "foo.com/l=english&se=local&incEN=false&q=bob%20bob&" but it is giving me:

foo.com/l=english&se=local&incEN=false&q=bob22520bob&

as the string for the NSURL.

How do I fix this so that I get the desired string to be set as the NSURL string?

Sho's answer should work. If you want to manually use the % in your string write %% in it's place: http://stackoverflow.com/a/739707/653513 — Rok Jarc, Dec 15 '13 at 12:20
@rokjarc Sho's answer did not work for me. Please look at my comment on his post. the problem is that I am creating urlString with NSString stringWithFormat...would that make any difference? — user2905147, Dec 15 '13 at 12:30
Since you are using `+stringWithFormat:` please include that in the code in your question. It is almost certainly the cause of the bug — Mike Abdullah, Jan 10 '14 at 10:39

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 15 '13 at 12:12

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Try this function:

NSString* urlString = @"foo.com/l=english&se=local&incEN=false&q=bob bob&"
NSString* urlEscaped [urlString stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

No need to add %20 in the URL, just escape it in the next function.

answered Dec 15 '13 at 12:12

Sho

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No this is giving me: foo.com/l=english&se=local&incEN=false&q=bob2ob& which i do not want. i want the '%' sign to be there after nsurl – user2905147 Dec 15 '13 at 12:25

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 15 '13 at 12:54

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Try replacing %20 with +.
I often see spaces in URLs encoded as a plain + as well.

answered Dec 15 '13 at 12:54

Christian Schnorr

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 04 '14 at 06:20

Perhaps the url

urlString = @"foo.com/l=english&se=local&incEN=false&q=bob%20bob&";

is already using some kind of encoding for space as "%20",so using "stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding" method will encode it again which will result as"%22520" for space.Also the encoding method may not work correctly if it is http not https.For me using https instead of http and encoding the url string with NSUTF8StringEncoding worked.

NSURL with string %20

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