URL encoding
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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 is sometimes uses as a synonym for Percent-encoding.
Links
- Wikipedia: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
