URL File Encoding

Question

Can anyone point me to a generic way to encode a file as a URL for example say the actual file name is: "C:/%test + test%/http%3A%2F%2Fshakiboy2.free.fr%3A80%2Fphotos%2Fap01%2F%2F02.jpg"
The below code does not work because it will put a '+' in the place of the space ' '.
File file = new File("C:/%test + test%/http%3A%2F%2Fshakiboy2.free.fr%3A80%2Fphotos%2Fap01%2F%2F02.jpg");
String encodedUrl = "file:///" + URLEncoder.encode(file.getAbsolutePath(), "UTF-8");
URL url = new URL(encodedUrl);
InputStream is = url.openStream();The above code has this exception:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\%test+++test%\http%3A%2F%2Fshakiboy2.free.fr%3A80%2Fphotos%2Fap01%2F%2F02.jpg (The system cannot find the path specified)If I simply replace all '+' with ' ' that will not work because there is a '+' in the actual directory name.
If I simply replace all ' ' with '%20' before encoding the url, that will not work because it will encode the '%20's.

Answer 1

I guess if I RTFM'd I wouldn't have posted so quickly.
Here is the solution:
File file = new File("C:/%test + test%/http%3A%2F%2Fshakiboy2.free.fr%3A80%2Fphotos%2Fap01%2F%2F02.jpg");
URI uri = file.toURI();
URL url = uri.toURL();
System.out.println(url);