Unable to get data from server if url having hyphen,in android

Question

I am sending request to server by using this following url format
http://api.xyz.com/JSonService.asmx/Category_Name=food-and-drink.

But my problem is i am not able to send the request as hyphen present in food-and-drink,but in my system browser it is working fine..

Thanks in advance.

Encode the URL as explained here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3286067/url-encoding-in-android — fasteque, Jan 17 '14 at 08:33
As @fasteque explained, you need to encode your url. This works in your browser, because it encodes it automatically — Mario Stoilov, Jan 17 '14 at 08:34

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 31 '18 at 18:59

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You need to use URLEncoder

String queryStr = URLEncoder.encode("food-and-drink", "utf-8");
String urlStr = "http://api.xyz.com/JSonService.asmx/Category_Name=" + queryStr;

edited Aug 31 '18 at 18:59

marc_s

answered Jan 17 '14 at 08:33

Padma Kumar

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Please notice that this example in not entirely correct because you don't have to encode the entire URL but just the relevant part like the query string. If you encode the whole URL, also "http://" will be encode as "http%3A%2F%2F" and it will likely cause a java.net.MalformedURLException. – fasteque Jan 17 '14 at 08:50

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