Download image URL contains "è"

Question

I try to download the image in the following url:

http://upload.tapcrowd.com//cache//_cp_100_100_stand_filière_300x212.jpg

As you can see in the browser this shows an image, but in my app I get a FileNotFoundException.

However if i change the url of the image from "è" to "e". I can succesfully download it into my app. This however is only a temporary solution as it needs to be able to download images with unicode sign.

How can I achieve this?

Method used to download images:

        Bitmap bitmap = null;
        URL imageUrl = new URL(url);
        HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) imageUrl.openConnection();
        conn.setConnectTimeout(30000);
        conn.setReadTimeout(30000);
        conn.setInstanceFollowRedirects(true);
        InputStream is = conn.getInputStream();
        OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(f);
        Utils.CopyStream(is, os);
        os.close();
        bitmap = decodeFile(f, maxheight, maxwidth);

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result code that works for me:

        Bitmap bitmap = null;
        int slashIndex = url.lastIndexOf('/');
        String filename = url.substring(slashIndex + 1);
        filename = URLEncoder.encode(filename, "UTF-8");
        url = url.subSequence(0, slashIndex + 1) + filename;
        URL imageUrl = new URL(url);
        HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) imageUrl.openConnection();
        conn.setConnectTimeout(30000);
        conn.setReadTimeout(30000);
        conn.setInstanceFollowRedirects(true);
        InputStream is = conn.getInputStream();
        OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(f);
        Utils.CopyStream(is, os);
        os.close();
        bitmap = decodeFile(f, maxheight, maxwidth);

Answer 1

Encode the url using URLEncoder:

String baseUrl = "http://upload.tapcrowd.com//cache//";
String imageName = "_cp_100_100_stand_filière_300x212.jpg";
URL imageUrl = new URL(baseUrl+URLEncoder.encode(imageName ,"UTF-8"));

It works with your browser, because browser is smart enough to do the encoding when you type accent in your url bar.