How to pass a string containing double quotes from a jsp to a servlet through URL using get method

Question

I want to set a jsp parameter to an attribute value which may contain special symbols, then use a form GET submit to pass the parameter to a servlet controller. For

Answer 1

You encode the value before placing it into the form and then decode it in the serlvet.

(You might have already seen this as %20 in URL parameters)

Here are the respective classes.

http://download-llnw.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/net/URLEncoder.html

http://download-llnw.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/net/URLDecoder.html