The Old New Thing

The great thing about URL encodings is that there are so many to choose from

March 31, 2010 Mar 31, 2010 03/31/10

Raymond Chen

The phrase URL encoding appears to mean different things to different people. First, Tim Berners-Lee says that URLs are encoded by using to encode "dangerous" characters, or to suppress the special meaning that would normally be assigned to characters such as / or ?. For example, the URL http://server/why%3F/?q=bother is a request to the ...