Why in the everliving freaking fuck does Java have a class called URLEncoder which DOES NOT DO URL ENCODING??? The shit-spraying piece of a mouldy footgun does formencoding?? Which sadistic maniac thought that was a good idea?

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What part of this is not encoding the string for url usage?

Utility class for HTML form encoding. This class contains static methods for converting a String to the
> application/x-www-form-urlencoded
MIME format

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/...

@C0D4 it does form encoding though, not url (percent) encoding. As an example: it will encode a space to a plus character, which is fine in form encoding (or the query part of a url), but not at all correct in the path of a url

@epse fix the endpoint to receive +'s 🤷‍♂️

But then again, it's a urlencoder not a uri encoder 😏

@C0D4 that's not "fixing" the endpoint, that's deviating from the url standard just to accommodate a poorly named java class. It's a perfectly fine form encoder, just not a url encoder.

(there's other differences other than spaces, but I digress)

@epse

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/...

You'll need URI - see section "Escaped octets, quotation, encoding, and decoding "

@IntrusionCM oh URI has its own footguns, but yes, it does do that bit correctly

@epse honestly it's hard to find a library that does everything right.. Oracle JDK documentation is a nightmare and the standard library sometimes has it's ways of giving severe brain damage, without a doubt… but from my experience there is no perfectness regarding URL -/ URI handling, parsing and encoding in any language.

Might have something to do with URIs being standardized, but many loopholes exist.

Caching middleware taught me a lot about it...

@IntrusionCM spring comes with a good library for URI encoding and has relatively decent community docs, but in general I agree with you. Of all languages we use at work, I dread java the most. At least it has Jena, that's very powerful in its field