I am trying to exectue the following REST url using Android but I get the following error,
11-23 12:12:32.749: E/AndroidRuntime(709): Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character in query at index 121: http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com/add.php?key=xxxxxxxxxxxx&type=Timbuktu&description=Africa&latitude=16.776767&longitude=-3.006361&private={"tag":"test"}
When I call the same URL in a browser, it works. Any help would be apprciated !
Encode your url first, paramerters part only..
URLEncoder.encode("key=xxxx&type=Timbuktu&description=Africa&latitude=16.776767&longitude=-3.006361&private={\"tag\":\"test\"}", "UTF-8")
You need to URL-encode the parameters of your URL, like this:
String privateParamValue = URLEncoder.encode("{\"tag\":\"test\"}", "UTF-8");
String url = "http://xxxx.com/add.php?key=xxxx&type=Timbuktu&description=Africa&latitude=16.776767&longitude=-3.006361&private=" + privateParamValue;
Browsers are intelligent and encode the URL in UTF-8. I Think u should also do that at client end.
URLEncoder.encode(url, "UTF-8");
