Online URL Encoder

I generate a link in a browser to share a text via Sms. The link format is the following:

sms:?&body=some and any

However, when the body text contains special characters such as & it breaks, since they are interpreted as a parameter of the syntax:

sms:?&body=some & any

will open the sms message app but fill the body only with some.

The link is generated in a Django backend, therefore I've tried to encode the body as follows

body = urllib.parse.quote(body_text, safe='~()*!.\'')return f'sms:?&body={body}'

which then gives the result

sms:?&body=some %26 any

but it is still cutting off the actual body in the sms to only display some.

Any idea how to work around this issue?

I searched so much and there's no clear instruction for sending POST request with "x-www-form-urlencoded" content-type.i want to know how to do that and if you know how to do it with Alamofire it would be a better way.any help will be appreciated.

How could I check if string has already been encoded?

For example, if I encode TEST==, I get TEST%3D%3D. If I again encode last string, I get TEST%253D%253D, I would have to know before doing that if it is already encoded...

I have encoded parameters saved, and I need to search for them. I don't know for input parameters, what will they be - encoded or not, so I have to know if I have to encode or decode them before search.

Say I have a URL

http://example.com/query?q=

and I have a query entered by the user such as:

random word £500 bank $

I want the result to be a properly encoded URL:

http://example.com/query?q=random%20word%20%A3500%20bank%20%24

What's the best way to achieve this? I tried URLEncoder and creating URI/URL objects but none of them come out quite right.

My Java standalone application gets a URL (which points to a file) from the user and I need to hit it and download it. The problem I am facing is that I am not able to encode the HTTP URL address properly...

Example:

URL:  http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/first book.pdfjava.net.URLEncoder.encode(url.toString(), "ISO-8859-1");

returns me:

http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.barnesandnoble.com%2Fbooksearch%2Ffirst+book.pdf

But, what I want is

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/first%20book.pdf

(space replaced by %20)

I guess URLEncoder is not designed to encode HTTP URLs... The JavaDoc says "Utility class for HTML form encoding"... Is there any other way to do this?