C# Uri.EscapeDatastring() equivalent for Java

Question

We've implemented an HTTP authentication connection, encoded in C# with Uri.EscapeDataString().

I'm trying to make an identical java test application that does the exact same thing as the C# version, but URLEncoder.encode(string, "UTF-8") adds additional encoding that isn't quite the same as the C# Uri.EscapeDataString() function.

What's the equivalent encoding method?

Answer 1

The best way I've found to do this is to use the URL.toURI().toString() combo:

String uriEncodeVariable = "https://localhost:443";
URL tempURL = new URL(uriEncodeVariable);
String uriResult = tempURL.toURI().toString();