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encode €-sign in POST for HTML

I send a query to a php file in order to receive a xml:

www.mydomain.com/order.php?item=€15,- shoes

For HTML I need the €-sign as: & e u r o ;

I tried:

try {
            query=URLEncoder.encode(query,"UTF-8");
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();

        }

And the POST-url=www.mydomain.com/order.php?query

Problem with that is that the = sign also becomes encoded, and I get the error for the & e u r o ; (the ;-sign):

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character in query at index

How do I encode this query?

Solution

  • You don't want to encode your whole query string.

    Encode each parameter value before constructing the query string.

    eg:

    query = "item=" + URLEncoder.encode("€15")

    Also, if you want &euro that's not URL encoded but HTML escaped. Use URL encoding instead.