Url Encode
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What is URL Encoding?
Uniform Resource Locator(URL) used by Web browsers to request pages from web servers.
URL encoding converts characters into a valid format so that it can be transmitted over the Internet.
Only ASCII character-set can be sent as a part of URLs over the Internet. Many times URL can contain characters outside the ASCII set, the URL string has to be converted into a valid ASCII format which can be transmitted over internet.
The encoding of URL replaces unsafe ASCII characters with a "%" followed by two hexadecimal digits. As URLs cannot contain spaces, it has to be replaed by some valid ASCII characters, it normally replaces a space with a plus (+) sign or with %20.
Some of ASCII Characters Encoding Reference
Character | Windows-1252 | UTF-8 |
---|---|---|
space | %20 | %20 |
! | %21 | %21 |
" | %22 | %22 |
# | %23 | %23 |
$ | %24 | %24 |
% | %25 | %25 |
& | %26 | %26 |
' | %27 | %27 |
( | %28 | %28 |
) | %29 | %29 |
* | %2A | %2A |
+ | %2B | %2B |
, | %2C | %2C |
- | %2D | %2D |
. | %2E | %2E |
/ | %2F | %2F |
Some sample :
http://www.abc.com?name=Don Bosco
will be converted to
http%3a%2f%2fwww.abc.com%3fname%3dDon+Bosco