Convert short url to complete url

Question

How to Decode and Encode a url ? I have this short url an I want to encode that

http://test.com/en/test/93043017523/xxx-yyy-zzz

after a while I found this solution

java.net.URLEncoder.encode(myurl, "UTF-8");

1) That is not valid Java code. You are missing quotes. 2) what is a "complete URL"? — , Sep 16 '14 at 11:08
see if this helps : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1519392/how-to-prevent-apache-http-client-from-following-a-redirect You might need to do the reverse i.e. set the value to true — Rajarshi Goswami, Sep 16 '14 at 11:25

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 16 '14 at 11:18

Use this online tool for URL encoding: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/

JS: and also check out the built-in function encodeURIComponent(str) and encodeURI(str). In your case, this should work:

var myOtherUrl = 
       "http://test.com/en/test/93043017523/" + encodeURIComponent("xxx-yyy-zzz");

JAVA: In java use this URLEncoder.encode() method:

String url = "http://test.com/en/test/93043017523/" + URLEncoder.encode("xxx-yyy-zzz");

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 16 '14 at 11:20

HttpGet does not support redirects which might be causing the issue. The default behaviour is compliant with the requirements of the HTTP specification (RFC 2616)

Have you tried the HttpClient? For HttpClient 4.3 you can use the following code snippet to allow redirects:

HttpClient instance = HttpClientBuilder.create()
                       .setRedirectStrategy(new LaxRedirectStrategy()).build();

Convert short url to complete url

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