Java Utililty Methods URL Clear

String cleanURL(final String input)
This method is used to remove extra characters from a URL.

String output = input.replace("\"", "");
output = output.replace(" ", "%22");
return output;

String cleanUrl(String encodedUrl)
Clean an encoded string so it may be embedded as a query parameter.

return encodedUrl.replaceAll("\\+", "-").replaceAll("/", "_").replaceAll("=", "");

String cleanUrl(String uriStr)
clean Url

if (isDevelopment()) {
 return uriStr.replace(getContextPath(), "");
return uriStr;

String cleanUrl(String url)
clean Url

return url.replace("\"", "");

String cleanUrl(String url)
clean Url

String cleanUrl = url.trim();
if (cleanUrl.length() >= 8) {
 if (cleanUrl.substring(0, 7).equalsIgnoreCase("http://")) {
 cleanUrl = "http://" + cleanUrl.substring(7);
 } else if (cleanUrl.substring(0, 8).equalsIgnoreCase("https://")) {
 cleanUrl = "https://" + cleanUrl.substring(8);
return cleanUrl;

String cleanUrlTitle(String programTitle)
clean Url Title

return cleanUrlTitle(programTitle, DEFAULT_MIN_MUNGED_TITLE_LENGTH);