Online URL Encoder / Decoder

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URL Encoder / Decoder

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About URL Encoder / Decoder

If you wish to encode or decode a line or paragraph of text, then you can use this free online tool. In the first step, you can convert the given data strings to a string to-byte by using UTF-8 encoding in the second step convert, all the bytes in %HH except the ASCII letters and digits that are used in your data. By this free utility, you can encode or decode a string so that it matches the Uniform Resource Locators Specification - URL (RFC 1738). To learn more about URL encoding, you can Google the term “Encodes or decodes”.

Why use URL encoder/decoder tool:

URL encoding and URL decoding can easily, modify a string so that it respects the convention forced by the Uniform Resource Locators requirement. The RFC 1738 URL specification states that only a little set of characters be able to be used in a URL construction.
The upper-case letters (A to Z), lower-case letters (a to Z), digits/ numbers (0 to 9), as well as numerous ‘reserved’ signs/symbols (period, closing/opening bracket, dollar sign, underscore, single quote, plus sign, asterisk, exclamation, (-) Hyphen) can be included in this conversion system.
 

Reserved characters list, their purpose with encoding:

Character

Purpose in URL

Character encode

/

Used to separate domains & directories

%2F

#

Separates anchors

%23

+

Indicates a space

%2B

%

Indicates an encoded character

%25

@

Separate user & pass details from the domain

%40

:

Separate protocol from address

%3B

<space>

Space, is not recommended in URLs

+ or %20

?

Separate query string

%3F

 

Url Encoding simple understanding:

The URL specification RFC 1738 system clearly explains that only a small number of specific characters can be used in URL Encoding. These characters are listed here:

  • A to Z (ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ)
  • a to z (abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz)
  • 0 to 9 (0123456789)
  • $ (Dollar Sign)
  • - (Hyphen / Dash)
  • _ (Underscore)
  • . (Period)
  • + (Plus sign)
  • ! (Exclamation / Bang)
  • * (Asterisk / Star)
  • ' (Single Quote)
  • ( (Open Bracket)
  • ) (Closing Bracket)

URL encoding Mechanism:

All offending characters are replaced by a % and a two-digit hexadecimal value that represents the character in the proper ISO character set. Here are a couple of examples:

  • $ (Dollar Sign)  changed to %24
  • & (Ampersand) changed to %26
  • + (Plus) changed to %2B
  • , (Comma) changed to %2C
  • : (Colon) changed to %3A
  • ; (Semi-Colon) changed to %3B
  • = (Equals) changed to %3D
  • ? (Question Mark) changed to %3F
  • @ (Commercial A / At) changed to %40