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To “URL encode” or “percent encode” text means to encode it for use in a URL. Some characters are not valid when used as-is in URLs, and so much be URL-encoded (percent-encoded) when appearing in URLs.

https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#percent-encoded-bytes is the section of the current URL standard that defines percent encoding (URL encoding).

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Encode URL in JavaScript?

How do you safely encode a URL using JavaScript such that it can be put into a GET string? var myUrl = "http://example.com/index.html?param=1&anotherParam=2"; var myOtherUrl = "http://example.com/index.html?url=" + myUrl; I assume that you need to…
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Java URL encoding of query string parameters

Say I have a URL http://example.com/query?q= and I have a query entered by the user such as: random word £500 bank $ I want the result to be a properly encoded URL: http://example.com/query?q=random%20word%20%A3500%20bank%20%24 What's the best…
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How to urlencode a querystring in Python?

I am trying to urlencode this string before I submit. queryString = 'eventName=' + evt.fields["eventName"] + '&' + 'eventDescription=' + evt.fields["eventDescription"];
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Query-string encoding of a Javascript Object

Do you know a fast and simple way to encode a Javascript Object into a string that I can pass via a GET Request? No jQuery, no other frameworks - just plain Javascript :)
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When to encode space to plus (+) or %20?

Sometimes the spaces get URL encoded to the + sign, some other times to %20. What is the difference and why should this happen?
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urlencode vs rawurlencode?

If I want to create a URL using a variable I have two choices to encode the string. urlencode() and rawurlencode(). What exactly are the differences and which is preferred?
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How to urlencode data for curl command?

I am trying to write a bash script for testing that takes a parameter and sends it through curl to web site. I need to url encode the value to make sure that special characters are processed properly. What is the best way to do this? Here is my…
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HTTP URL Address Encoding in Java

My Java standalone application gets a URL (which points to a file) from the user and I need to hit it and download it. The problem I am facing is that I am not able to encode the HTTP URL address properly... Example: URL: …
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URL Encoding using C#

I have an application which sends a POST request to the VB forum software and logs someone in (without setting cookies or anything). Once the user is logged in I create a variable that creates a path on their local…
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URL encoding in Android

How do you encode a URL in Android? I thought it was like this: final String encodedURL = URLEncoder.encode(urlAsString, "UTF-8"); URL url = new URL(encodedURL); If I do the above, the http:// in urlAsString is replaced by http%3A%2F%2F in…
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Swift - encode URL

If I encode a string like this: var escapedString = originalString.stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding) it doesn't escape the slashes /. I've searched and found this Objective C code: NSString *encodedString =…
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How to percent-encode URL parameters in Python?

If I do url = "http://example.com?p=" + urllib.quote(query) It doesn't encode / to %2F (breaks OAuth normalization) It doesn't handle Unicode (it throws an exception) Is there a better library?
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How do you UrlEncode without using System.Web?

I am trying to write a windows client application that calls a web site for data. To keep the install to a minimum I am trying only use dlls in the .NET Framework Client Profile. Trouble is that I need to UrlEncode some parameters, is there an easy…
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URL encode sees “&” (ampersand) as “&” HTML entity

I am encoding a string that will be passed in a URL (via GET). But if I use escape, encodeURI or encodeURIComponent, & will be replaced with %26amp%3B, but I want it to be replaced with %26. What am I doing wrong?
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What's the difference between EscapeUriString and EscapeDataString?

If only deal with url encoding, I should use EscapeUriString?
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