Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition

Name

URLEncoder

Synopsis

This class defines a single static method that converts a string to its URL-encoded form. That is, spaces are converted to +, and nonalphanumeric characters other than underscore are output as two hexadecimal digits following a percent sign. Note that this technique works only for 8-bit characters. This method canonicalizes a URL specification so that it uses only characters from an extremely portable subset of ASCII that can be correctly handled by computers around the world.

public class URLEncoder {
// No Constructor
                  // Public Class Methods
                  1.4  public static String encode(String s, String enc) 
throws java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;  
// Deprecated Public Methods
                  #    public static String encode(String s);  
}