In what ways does URL encoding work?

Learn the basics of URL encoding, including what it is, how it works, and why it is necessary. URL Encoding is a method for converting URLs that include reserved or non-ASCII characters into a format that can be read by any online browser or server. It improves the URLs' reliability and safety.

What do you know about URLEncoding?

An easy-to-use web tool for encoding URLs is URL Encoder. Enter a string in the input box and the tool will automatically encode it into a URL in real-time, no programming required. Once the URL has been encoded, you may copy the encoded URL by clicking on the output text field. Please take note that our tool encodes URLs using the UTF-8 encoding standard. UTF-8 encoding is recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium.

In addition to the tool, our website has a number of articles that explain how URLs are encoded in various programming languages.

What is Percent Encoding and how does it work?

If you're using the internet, you can only use alphanumeric characters and a few safe characters like hyphen, underscore dot, and tilde in your URLs (.).

There are letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and punctuation symbols in the alphabet.
Code any non-listed character in addition to the above.

It is possible to encode URLs in a safe and secure manner that can be broadcast over the internet by using URL encoding, also known as percent-encoding. HTML forms with the content type application/x-www-form-urlencoded may be submitted using this method as well.

What's the deal with URL encoding?

A character is initially encoded into one or more bytes using URL encoding. Hexadecimal two-digit digits followed by the percent sign (percent) are used to indicate each bit (e.g. percent xy). In this case, we have the encoded URL.

URL encoding may alternatively be referred to as "Percent encoding" since the percent sign is used as an escape character in URLs.

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For example, let's have a look at how to encode the @ character in URLs. Using its ASCII value, we first encode @ as a series of bytes. As an ASCII character, @ has a decimal value of 64, which is 40 hexadecimal. Once the percent sign is added, we get the final URL encoded value of 40%.

encoding and decoding of web pages
The following is a list of characters that cannot be directly included in URLs: -

Control characters of the ASCII character are set to fall between the ranges of 0-31 and 127. In order to use these characters in URLs without encoding, they must be encoded first. It's easy to see what a control character is when you see it in action.

Symbols and punctuation: URLs assign specific significance to characters like?:, /, #, and &. Because of this, you can't just put them in URLs without encoding or escaping them first.

There are a number of characters that must be encoded before being used in URLs: spaces,>, and.

For the last time, you can't use non-ASCII characters in URLs since they can't be properly sent. They must be encoded.

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