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Heitor Barbieri
Heitor Barbieri

Reputation: 159

HTTP URL Address Encoding in Scala/Java

I want a function that loads the contents of a url address, but I do not know in advance if the url is encoded or not. Is there a library function that solves that?

One possible soluction would be the decode the url first and then encode it, but I would have to treat the each part of the url in a different way (in the example bellow the no ASCII character is in the path part but it could also be in the query part). There are so many details to handle, one library that treats that would be wonderfull.


object UrlContent extends App {
  def connect(urls: String): Int = {
    val url = new URL(urls)
    val conn: HttpURLConnection = url.openConnection().asInstanceOf[HttpURLConnection]

    conn.getResponseCode
  }

  val urls1 = "http://www.ins.gob.pe/insvirtual/images/otrpubs/pdf/ponzo%C3%B1osos.pdf"
  val urls2 = "http://www.ins.gob.pe/insvirtual/images/otrpubs/pdf/ponzoñosos.pdf"

  println(connect(urls1))
  println(connect(urls2))
}```

The output is:

200
404

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1372

Answers (1)

Mario Galic
Mario Galic

Reputation: 48410

Try lemonlabsuk/scala-uri, for example

import io.lemonlabs.uri.Url

val urls1 = Url.parse("http://www.ins.gob.pe/insvirtual/images/otrpubs/pdf/ponzo%C3%B1osos.pdf")
val urls2 = Url.parse("http://www.ins.gob.pe/insvirtual/images/otrpubs/pdf/ponzoñosos.pdf")

println(urls1)
println(urls2)

outputs in both cases

http://www.ins.gob.pe/insvirtual/images/otrpubs/pdf/ponzo%C3%B1osos.pdf
http://www.ins.gob.pe/insvirtual/images/otrpubs/pdf/ponzo%C3%B1osos.pdf

so it seems it is able to detect if the URL is already encoded.

Upvotes: 2

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