Everything You Need to Know About URL Encoding
URL encoding, also known as Percent-encoding, is a mechanism for encoding information in a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). While it's often called URL encoding, it's actually used more broadly within URIs and URNs.
Why Do We Encode?
Characters allowed in a URL are either reserved or unreserved. Reserved characters (like ?, &, =) have special meanings. If you want to include these characters as data in your URL, they must be encoded.
How It Works
Special characters are replaced with a % followed by their two-digit hexadecimal representation. For example, a space becomes %20.