Showing posts with label HTML URL Encoding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HTML URL Encoding. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

HTML URL Encoding

URL encoding converts characters into a format that can be transmitted over the Internet.

URL - Uniform Resource Locator

Web browsers request pages from web servers by using a URL.
The URL is the address of a web page, like: http://www.nabeeljamil.blogspot.com/

URL Encoding

URLs can only be sent over the Internet using the ASCII character-set.
Since URLs often contain characters outside the ASCII set, the URL has to be converted into a valid ASCII format.
URL encoding replaces non ASCII characters with a "%" followed by two hexadecimal digits.
URLs cannot contain spaces. URL encoding normally replaces a space with a + sign.

Try It Yourself

If you click the "Submit" button below, the browser will URL encode the input before it is sent to the server. A page at the server will display the received input.

Try some other input and click Submit again.

URL Encoding Examples

CharacterURL-encoding
%80
£%A3
©%A9
®%AE
À%C0
Á%C1
Â%C2
Ã%C3
Ä%C4
Å%C5

For a complete reference of all URL encodings, visit our URL Encoding Reference.