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§4.10 Class URLEncoder

public  class  java.net.URLEncoder
    extends  java.lang.Object  (I-§1.12)
{
        // Methods
    public static String encode(String  s);	§4.10.1
}

The class contains a utility method for converting a String into a MIME format called "x- www-form-urlencoded" format.

To convert a String, each character is examined in turn:

The ASCII characters 'a' through 'z', 'A' through 'Z', and '0' through '9' remain the same.
The space character ' ' is converted into a plus sign '+'.
All other characters are converted into the three-character string "%xy" where xy is the two-digit hexidecimal representation of the lower 16-bits of the character.

encode

public static String encode(String  s)

Translates a String into x-www-form-urlencoded format.

Parameters:: s -String to be translated
Returns:: the translated String.

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