When should space be encoded to plus (+) or %20? [duplicate]
Sometimes the spaces get URL encoded to the + sign, and some other times to %20. What is the difference and why should this happen?
Sometimes the spaces get URL encoded to the + sign, and some other times to %20. What is the difference and why should this happen?
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@MetaByter I think it is more technically correct to phrase the question as "In a URL, should I encode the spaces using %20 or + in the query part of a URL?" because while the example you show
As the aforementioned RFC does not include any reference of encoding spaces as +, I guess using %20 is the way to go today. For example, "%20" is the percent-encoding for the binary
312 A bit of explaining as to what that %2520 is : The common space character is encoded as %20 as you noted yourself. The % character is encoded as %25. The way you get
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I am interested in knowing why ''%20'' is used as a space in URLs, particularly why %20 was used and why we even need it in the first place.
Depending on your point of view, that''s not quite correct. %20 represents a space, but represents a non-breaking space, technically a separate character. So even if it were a good
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