@ converted to %40 in HTTPPost request

Question

i m trying to send post request to webservice.. when i add special character @ in parameter it is coverted to %40.i have checked server side..they are getting %40 instead of @. can any one help me?? here is my code..

httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("Email", "[email protected]"));


httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
 ResponseHandler<String> responseHandler = new BasicResponseHandler();
String response = httpclient.execute(httppost,responseHandler);

i have also tried this method to prevent my parameter from encoding.

httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs, HTTP.PLAIN_TEXT_TYPE));

but it raised unsupported encoded algorithm

pls help me out of this.

Answer 1

You're using UrlEncodedFormEntity, which will URL-encode the content. Turning @ into %40 is normal with this encoding. The recipient should be able to decode that automatically, although you may have to use the correct content type for it to do so, probably application/x-www-form-urlencoded.

Answer 2

You can use

URLDecoder.decode("urlcontext", "UTF-8");

to remove any special character from the url which your passing