URL-encoder is a basic and straightforward web application for encoding URLs. All you have to do is type or paste a string into the input text section, and the program will convert it to URL encoded format in real time. Once the URL has been encoded, you can copy the encoded URL by clicking in the output text area. It's worth noting that our program encodes URLs using the UTF-8 encoding standard. Encoding should be done with UTF-8, according to the World Wide Web Consortium.
This is how URL Encoding works: it turns the character to one or more bytes first. Then two hexadecimal digits preceded by a percent symbol (percent) are used to represent each byte - (e.g. percent xy). We now have the URL encoded value.
Because the percent symbol is used as an escape character, URL encoding is also known as Percent encoding.
Encoded Percentage = "%" HEXVALUE HEXVALUE
Let's look at how to URL encode the character @, for example. To encode @, we first turn its ASCII value into a sequence of bytes. In decimal, the ASCII value of @ is 64, which is translated to 40 in hexadecimal. The hex value is then preceded by a percent sign (%), giving us the final URL encoded value of %40.
URL decoding is simply transforming the encoded URL string into plain text form. It replaces a set of special characters in the URL with their plain text equivalents to convert it into normal letters, numbers, spaces and symbols. Try it here: URL Decoder
The classification of different types of characters that cannot be directly placed inside URLs is as follows:
ASCII control characters are characters in the ASCII character set that fall between 0-31 and 127. These characters are unprintable and must be encoded before being used in any URL. Backspace, carriage return, line feed, vertical tab, horizontal tab, and other control characters are instances.
Characters that have been set aside as reserved: Within URLs, characters like?,:, /, #, and & have specific meaning. As a result, you can't use them in URLs without encoding or escaping them.
Unsafe characters: Many characters, such as space, <, >, {, } and must be encoded before being used in URLs.
Finally, any character that is not part of the ASCII character set cannot be securely transmitted using URLs. They must be encoded.
To encode the URL. Execute the actions below.