Jsoup.connect(string) encoding issues

Question

I have several special character url\'s i have to connect to with Jsoup.connect(string), but it fails to load the page (getting a error 500). I\'m not really that much into

Answer 1

Running into URL-encoding problems, I'd recommend you parse your request using a URL encoder tool first (StackOverflow answer regarding those). One already comes with Java.

URLEncoder.encode(stringToBeEncoded, "UTF-8") 

Using it on your unformatted string above, it should look something like:

Document gDoc = JSoup.connect(placesURL.format(URLEncoder.encode(queryString, "UTF-8"));

... as to not URL-encode your entire URL, just the part of the query you need to be UTF-8 (or UTF-16) compliant.