Server returned HTTP response code: 400 for URL. CANNOT WHITE SPACE URL

[Clawsy]

Hi,
I have an urgent ugly problem. I have a php file on a server that reads the name of the files of a directory from the server and POST them to my java application. When I try to read it, i get

Server returned HTTP response code: 400 for URL: http://www.xxxxxxxxxxxxx

. This does not happens on files that do not contain white spaces. Only at URLs like: "http://www.abc.com/Hello world.gif" but not at "http://www.abc.com/HelloWorld.gif".
I tried to encode the URL... I could not solve it. Please can you help me? I need it fast...
Thanks!

[PatrickSharp]

Ah, if only a nickle I had for each urgent problem needing to be solved fast...

/** imports
*/
import java.net.URLDecoder;
import java.net.URLEncoder;

// ...

String addr = "http://www.blah.blah/image with spaces.gif";
		
String junk = URLEncoder.encode(addr,"UTF-8"); 
System.out.println(junk);
junk = URLDecoder.decode(addr,"UTF-8");
System.out.println(junk);

Your output is: http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blah.blah%2Fimage+with+spaces.gif
<a href="http://www.blah.blah/image">http://www.blah.blah/image</a> with spaces.gif

[Clawsy]

Of course, that's quite simple, thanks, but it useless as long as it cannot be parsed and throws malformed URL exception. I had a midi file loaded from URL. I vizited Sun forums and found out some topics and they could not solve this... white spaces in URL are forbidden. The encoding doesn't help as I said and as they posted there, too.
If you encode the URL it becomes unparsable. Sad but true. (same problem on that forum).
However, thanks.

[PatrickSharp]

How about trying just replacing the spaces with :

URLString.replaceAll(" ","%20");

I'm personally OK with spaces in filenames, except if they live on a webserver for this very same reason :)

IF you are requesting the filename with a Get or FTP request, then replace the spaces with %20 .