httpclient httpget doesn't accept square brackets

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I'm using HttpGet to return a file, and HttpGet doesn't allow the argument to be a URL, it has to be a URL, however the problem I face is that I have* to use httpclient, and I need to be able to put special characters in the URI/URL e.g. square brackets so:

http://127.0.0.1:8080/exists/rest/db/catalog?_query=//album[contains(title,"")]

What can I do?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/573184/java-convert-string-to-valid-uri-object — MByD, Nov 28 '11 at 20:14
Also see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40568/square-brackets-in-urls — Rob Hruska, Nov 28 '11 at 22:22

Chris · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-28T20:18:02.303

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URLEncode the portion of the url containing the special chars before passing to HttpGet with URLEncoder.encode(yourQueryString,"UTF-8");

edited Nov 28 '11 at 20:18

answered Nov 28 '11 at 20:12

Chris

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