What is HTTP URL Encoding

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What is HTTP URL Encoding

HTTP URLs sent over the internet using the ASCII character-set. In URL-encoding, the following things are performed.

• Convert all the "unsafe" characters to "%xx", where xx is the ASCII value of the character in hexadecimal.
• All the spaces changes into pluses.
• String the name and value together with = and &
• For POST submission, the string will be our message body, and for GET submission, the query string will be our message body. The ASCII symbols of the characters and their replacements are shown in the following table. These replacements of the symbol can be used in the URL before passing it to the server:

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