Hi Steve, the comma is a reserved character, and the vertical bar is an excluded character in RFC 2396 (URI Generic Syntax). Try to escape just those characters in the part before "?".
cheers, Roland Steve Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07.07.2004 17:53 Please respond to "Commons HttpClient Project" To "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc Subject URL escaping Hi All, Here is a URL that throws an exception if passed to GetMethod as is: throws something like invalid argument or uri. It appears to be the unescaped characters in /tr/cl/1,,TRAVELOCITY|987,00.html The problem is if the whole string is escaped then these escaped characters are double encoded: %3fService%3d to %325fService%253d which causes a server error 500. http://tr.travelocity.com/tr/cl/1,,TRAVELOCITY|987,00.html?s=hp1 < http://tr.travelocity.com/tr/cl/1,,TRAVELOCITY|987,00.html?s=hp1&c=hdstuff&URL=https://dps1.travelocity.com/l ognlogin.ctl%3fService%3dTRAVELOCITY%26tr_module%3dRETR%26SEQ%3d1372136878108921366819> &c=hdstuff&URL=https://dps1.travelocity.com/lognlogin.ctl%3fService%3dTRAVELOCITY%26tr_module%3dRETR%26SEQ%3d1 372136878108921366819 Is there a simple way to send any request without complaining about the URI? If this URL is pasted into IE it works. Currently doing this: URI parsedURI = null; // if at first you don't succeed. try { try { // again. parsedURI = new URI(url.toCharArray()); // This throws on the URL above } catch (URIException e) { parsedURI = new URI(url, I18N.getDefaultEncoding()); // This double encodes the URL above. } } catch (URIException e) { } Thanks for your time and help, Steve Steve Johnson Software Engineer Mercury Interactive 720 564 - 6532 USA, Canada and the Americas 720 564-6620 Hours: M-F 08:00-17:00 MST (Mountain Standard Time) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ <http://www.mercuryinteractive.com> http://www.mercuryinteractive.com Looking for Answers to your SiteScope or SiteSeer questions? < http://support.mercuryinteractive.com> http://support.mercuryinteractive.com ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^