Mmhh I know you've already discarded URLEncoder, but despite of what the docs say, I decided to give it a try.
You said:
For example, given an input:
http://google.com/resource?key=value
I expect the output:
http%3a%2f%2fgoogle.com%2fresource%3fkey%3dvalue
So:
C:\oreyes\samples\java\URL>type URLEncodeSample.java
import java.net.*;
public class URLEncodeSample {
public static void main( String [] args ) throws Throwable {
System.out.println( URLEncoder.encode( args[0], "UTF-8" ));
}
}
C:\oreyes\samples\java\URL>javac URLEncodeSample.java
C:\oreyes\samples\java\URL>java URLEncodeSample "http://google.com/resource?key=value"
http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com%2Fresource%3Fkey%3Dvalue
As expected.
What would be the problem with this?