java.net.URLEncode.encode(s, enc) treats an empty encoding name as "UTF-8"

Name: dfR10049 Date: 12/06/2000




Javadoc for java.net.URLEncode.encode(String s, String enc) states:

   Parameters:
        s - String to be translated.
        enc - The name of a supported character encoding. A value of null will result in
        UTF-8.
    Throws:
        UnsupportedEncodingException - If the named encoding is not supported

Spec for character encoding states that:
      The empty string is not a legal encoding name.

But in the current implementation an empty encoding name treats as UTF-8.

src/java/net/URLEncoder.java:

    public static String encode(String s, String enc)
throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
  
      ...
 
if ( (enc == null) || (enc.length() == 0))
enc = "UTF-8";
    }

Implementation should be fixed to be consistent with spec or this behavior should
be reflected in Javadoc.


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Name: dfR10049 Date: 12/07/2000



The same words are acceptable for java.net.URLDecoder class

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