Hi everyone,

Consider this URL.

"http://forums.devx.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=104"

Some URLs have something that are called escape characters("?", etc")

Are these characters supposed to encoded using the URI class that has a
method called toASCIIString() that returns the escaped characters as a US
ASCII format

or simply by direct connection

or create a URI to URL conversion by using its toURL method

Which is actually the correct way of connecting to that URL??

This way

HttpURLConnection connection = null;
String p1 = "http://forums.devx.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=104";

URL url = new URL(p1);
connection = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();  
connection.connect();  

//other codes to open the stream and read from it

Or this way

HttpURLConnection connection = null;
String p1 = "http://forums.devx.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=104";

URI uri = new URI(p1);
URL url = uri.toURL();

connection = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();  
connection.connect();

//other codes to open the stream and read from it

or this way

HttpURLConnection connection = null;
String p1 = "http://forums.devx.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=104";

URI uri = new URI(p1);
URL url = new URL(uri.totoASCIIString());

connection = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();  
connection.connect();

//other codes to open the stream and read from it

Are both correct or both wrong or only one is correct??

One more thing but isn't the purpose of the Java URI class supposed to
encode any of the query statements in the URL and pass it back to the URL
class using its toURL method. Correct me if i am wrong.

If i am wrong then what's the purpose of the Java URI class

I hope that someone could please clarify this

Thank You

Yours Sincerely

Richard West