Convert String to HTML Ready text for MAILTO: URL

Question

I am writing a large Java Application in which I would like to include a "Send Email" button. All it does is open a mailto url with the appropriate headers.

The only difficulty I am having is parsing the input strings so that they are formatted appropriately, for example: mailto:someone@somewhere.net?subject=This is the subject needs to become mailto:someone@somewhere.net?subject=This%20is%20the%20subject

Answer 1

You can try URLEncoder , specifically the encode method that can be found here .

Answer 2

You most likely need to "URLEncode" (translates the space characters (' ') to %20.

See this document: http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/net/URLEncoder.html