Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* chatter-bot-api Copyright (C) 2011 pierredavidbelanger@gmail.com This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ import java.net.URLEncoder; import java.util.Map; public class Main { public static String parametersToWWWFormURLEncoded(Map<String, String> parameters) throws Exception { StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder(); for (Map.Entry<String, String> parameter : parameters.entrySet()) { if (s.length() > 0) { s.append("&"); } s.append(URLEncoder.encode(parameter.getKey(), "UTF-8")); s.append("="); s.append(URLEncoder.encode(parameter.getValue(), "UTF-8")); } return s.toString(); } }