Encoder Url Online

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.

Is there a javascript function that takes a string and converts it into another string that is percent-encoded? That way something like "This Guy" turns into "This%20Guy".

Thanks

I'm running into a problem while providing Hadoop a directory that contains spaces.

e.g

inputDir = /abc/xyz/folder name/abc.txt

Hadoop somehow doesn't know about the "folder name" being the name of the folder with spaces between words.

I get the below error while doing that

java.io.FileNotFoundException: File does not exist: /abc/xyz/folder

Also, I tried providing with URL encoded.

java.io.FileNotFoundException: File does not exist: /abc/xyz/folder%20name/abc.txt

But still throws me the same error.

Does anybody know the workaround for this ?

Any help is appreciated.

I have 3 questions about base64:

1) The base64 encoding purpose is binary-to-text. Isn't text going to be sent through web as binary? Then what is good for?

2) In past they used 7-bit communication systems, now it's 8-bit. Then why we still using it now?

3) How it increases the size? I just take 3-bytes with 28-bit and rearrange them to 4-bytes of 6-bit but in total they still 28-bit?

I have the following URL

QString url = "http://www.gigacooldomainname.com/" + setName + "/" + fileName + ".jpg"

where setName and fileName are QString variables.

I wish to have the following:

QString url = "http://www.gigacooldomainname.com/" + QUrlParameter::encode(setName) + "/" + QUrlParameter::encode(fileName) + ".jpg"

Unfortunately there is not such QUrlParameter class or encode method.

I know I can write one by myself but was curious if there is already an existing solution in QT4.

I am also not interested in Q3Url::encode solution since I don't have the Q3Url headers.