URL - Uniform Resource Locator
Web browsers request pages from web servers by using a URL.The URL is the address of a web page, like: http://www.Excitingsearch.com.
URL Encoding
URLs can only be sent over the Internet using the ASCII character-set.Since URLs often contain characters outside the ASCII set, the URL has to be converted into a valid ASCII format.
URL encoding replaces non ASCII characters with a "%" followed by two hexadecimal digits.
URLs cannot contain spaces. URL encoding normally replaces a space with a + sign.
Try It Yourself
If you click the "Submit" button below, the browser will URL encode the input before it is sent to the server. A page at the server will display the received input.Try some other input and click Submit again.
URL Encoding Examples
| Character | URL-encoding |
|---|---|
| € | %80 |
| £ | %A3 |
| © | %A9 |
| ® | %AE |
| À | %C0 |
| Á | %C1 |
| Â | %C2 |
| Ã | %C3 |
| Ä | %C4 |
| Å | %C5 |