Opening File URL in a Browser

Question

I am trying to a TIFF file from my applet using file URL. The TIFF is located in the local file directory and I create an URL and get the Applet Context and call showDocument.
URL fileURL = new URL("file:///"+ <file location>);
applet.getAppletContext().showDocument(fileURL, "_blank");
The problem with the above code is that if the file location contains spaces it is not opening the TIFF file.
I tried using URLEncoder to encode the url so that the space could be replaced
URL fileURL = new URL("file:///"+ URLEncoder.encode(<file location>,"UTF-8"));
But when i tried with the above code, the spaces are converted to +. Even this is not recognized by browser.
What should I do so that spaces are converted to "%20" which is recognized by the browser. I tried various encoding formats nothing helps.

Answer 1

Rather than trying to figure out the file: url yourself you can rely on the
methods within the File and URI classes to perform the conversion
between file name and URL.import java.io.File;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
public class FileUrlEg {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws MalformedURLException {
        File f = new File("space dir/walkaway.wav");
        URL url = f.toURI().toURL();
        System.out.println(url);
}The output is:file:/C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/pbrockway2/My%20Documents/JDC/space%20dir/walkaway.wav