Comments on: Files and URLs http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/04/10/files-and-urls/ Alex Miller's technical blog Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:38:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Alex http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/04/10/files-and-urls/#comment-38645 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:09:02 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/04/10/files-and-urls/#comment-38645 Huh? What's the point of that? That gives you a URL string that's broken as it lacks the proper escaping. Huh? What’s the point of that? That gives you a URL string that’s broken as it lacks the proper escaping.

]]> by: Eirik http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/04/10/files-and-urls/#comment-38638 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:54:50 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/04/10/files-and-urls/#comment-38638 what about file.toURI().toURL().externalForm().replaceAll("%20", " "); ? It sure looks ugly, but i've done it quite recently and it works far better than it looks. what about file.toURI().toURL().externalForm().replaceAll(”%20″, ” “);
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It sure looks ugly, but i’ve done it quite recently and it works far better than it looks.

]]> by: Alex http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/04/10/files-and-urls/#comment-38602 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:00:17 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/04/10/files-and-urls/#comment-38602 URLEncoder is more oriented at encoding HTML forms into URLs. I'm not sure if it would also cover the escaping of chars in the url path itself. Certainly possible... URLEncoder is more oriented at encoding HTML forms into URLs. I’m not sure if it would also cover the escaping of chars in the url path itself. Certainly possible…

]]> by: Arman http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/04/10/files-and-urls/#comment-38594 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:24:16 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/04/10/files-and-urls/#comment-38594 Wouldn't java.net.URLEncoder/Decoder do the job? Wouldn’t java.net.URLEncoder/Decoder do the job?

]]> by: Alex http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/04/10/files-and-urls/#comment-38566 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:36:50 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/04/10/files-and-urls/#comment-38566 @Willem - yep, that should work too! @Martin - I am aware. I'm actually moving mostly away from URLs to Files anyways but we were already wrappering our URLs in the one case where equals and hashcode came up. @Willem - yep, that should work too!

@Martin - I am aware. I’m actually moving mostly away from URLs to Files anyways but we were already wrappering our URLs in the one case where equals and hashcode came up.

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