May 31, 2011 · In a URL, what does the %2C encoding mean and what are its uses?

Here is the list of Encoding Reference characters: w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.ASP

Dec 2, 2008 · Query parameters follow an older percent-encoding specification which expects spaces to be encoded as "+" instead of "%20". See this S.O. question to learn more. Some servers may be …

URL Encoding is the process of converting string into valid URL format. Valid URL format means that the URL contains only what is termed "alpha | digit | safe | extra | escape" characters.

Everything else must be url-encoded. Also, some of these characters can only exist in very specific spots in a URI and outside of those spots must be url-encoded (e.g. % can only be used in …

Oct 27, 2009 · The encoding used by default is based on a very early version of the general URI percent-encoding rules, with a number of modifications such as newline normalization and replacing …

Jan 10, 2017 · Usually a URL has the same interpretation when an octet is represented by a character and when it encoded. However, this is not true for reserved characters: encoding a character …

Oct 29, 2013 · I would always encode in UTF-8. From the Wikipedia page on percent encoding: The generic URI syntax mandates that new URI schemes that provide for the representation of character …

Nov 28, 2009 · HTML encoding and URL encoding do fundamentally different things. If you HTML encode, for instance, 'hello world' and try to add it to a url, you will get an invalid url.

String result = java.net.URLDecoder.decode(url, StandardCharsets.UTF_8); Note that a character encoding (such as UTF-8 or ASCII) is what determines the mapping of characters to raw bytes. For a …