What Is URL Encoding?

Why spaces and special characters become %20-style sequences in URLs and query strings.

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Why URLs need encoding

URLs can only use a limited character set safely. Spaces, ampersands, and non-ASCII text are percent-encoded so servers and browsers parse them correctly.

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