URL encoding

URL encoding is a somewhat ambiguous term that refers to a family of techniques for constructing URLs. Data is escaped in various ways to make it compatible with the restrictions of the URL format. URL encoding always involves Percent-encoding, and the term is sometimes used as a synonym for Percent-encoding.

See also Form URL encoding.

Links

 * Percent-encoding
 * RFC 1738: Uniform Resource Locators
 * RFC 3986: Uniform Resource Identifier: Generic Syntax
 * The great thing about URL encodings is that there are so many to choose from