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• URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator.
• URL encode also refers to percent-encoding.
• URL use some characters for special use in defining their syntax. When these characters are not used in their special role inside a URL, they need to be encoded.
• The unreserved characters should not be encoded. The unreserved characters are: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 - _ . ~
• The reserved characters have to be encoded only under certain circumstances. The reserved characters are:! * ' ( ) ; : @ & = + $ , / ? % # [ ]
• URL encode replace non-ASCII characters and - _ . ~ should be encoded as % plus a two-digit hexadecimal. ex:- encodify@1234 ==> encodify%401234
• URLs cannot contain spaces. URL encoding normally replaces a space with a plus (+) sign, or %20.