How do I pass multiple parameter in URL

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I am trying to figure out how to pass multiple parameters in a URL  I want to pass latitude and longitude from my android class to a java servlet  How can I do that   URL url  double lat touchedPoint getLatitudeE6     1E6  double lon touchedPoint getLongitudeE6     1E6  url   new URL  http   10 0 2 2 8080 HelloServlet PDRS param1   lat lon     In this case output  written to file  is 28 53438677 472097  This is working but I want to pass latitude and longitude in two separate parameters so that my work at server side is reduced  If it is not possible how can I at least add a space between lat  amp  lon so that I can use tokenizer class to get my latitude and longitude  I tried following line but to no avail                               url   new URL  http   10 0 2 2 8080 HelloServlet PDRS param1   lat     lon   output- Nothing is written to file         url   new URL  http   10 0 2 2 8080 HelloServlet PDRS param1   lat   amp  param2   lon   output- 28 534386  Only Latitude          url   new URL  http   10 0 2 2 8080 HelloServlet PDRS param1   lat   param2   lon   output- 28 532577 param2 77 502996   My servlet code is as follows   req setCharacterEncoding  UTF-8    resp setCharacterEncoding  UTF-8    final String par1    req getParameter  param1    final String par2   req getParameter  param2    FileWriter fstream   new FileWriter  C   Users  Hitchhiker  Desktop  out2 txt    BufferedWriter out   new BufferedWriter fstream   out write par1   out append par2   out close      Also I wanted to the know is this the most safe and secured way to pass the data from android device to server

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I do not know much about Java but URL query arguments should be separated by "&", not "?"

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986 is good place for reference using "sub-delim" as keyword. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string is another good source.

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You can pass multiple parameters as  quot  param1 value1 amp param2 value2 quot  But it s not secure  It s vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting  XSS  Attack  Your parameter can be simply replaced with a script  Have a look at this article and article You can make it secure by using API of StringEscapeUtils static String   escapeHtml String str             Escapes the characters in a String using HTML entities   Even using https url for security without above precautions is not a good practice  Have a look at related SE question  Is URLEncoder encode string   quot UTF-8 quot   a poor validation

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This  url   new URL  http   10 0 2 2 8080 HelloServlet PDRS param1   lat   amp param2   lon     must work  For whatever strange reason1  you need   before the first parameter and  amp  before the following ones   Using a compound parameter like  url   new URL  http   10 0 2 2 8080 HelloServlet PDRS param1   lat     lon     would work  too  but is surely not nice  You can t use a space there as it s prohibited in an URL  but you could encode it as  20 or    but this is even worse style      1 Stating that   separates the path and the parameters and that  amp  separates parameters from each other does not explain anything about the reason  Some RFC says  use   there and  amp  there   but I can t see why they didn t choose the same character

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