Illegal character in path at index 16 [duplicate]

Answer 1

I had a similar problem for xml. Just passing the error and solution (edited Jonathon version).

Code:

HttpGet xmlGet = new HttpGet( xmlContent );

Xml format:

    CA
    Cath
    300

Error:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Illegal character in path at index 0: 

    CA
    Cath
    Navigator

    at java.net.URI.create(URI.java:859)
    at org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet.(HttpGet.java:69)
    at de.vogella.jersey.first.Hello.validate(Hello.java:56)

Not Exactly perfect Solution: ( error vanished for that instance )

String theXml = URLEncoder.encode( xmlContent, "UTF-8" );
HttpGet xmlGet = new HttpGet( theXml );

Any idea What i should be doing ? It just cleared passed but had problem while doing this

HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute( xmlGet );