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Revision as of 00:23, 29 May 2020
Named because its original use was to encode special characters in URLs, URL encoding enables the use of otherwise non-transmittable characters in the textual protocol stream. Non-encoded characters, except the percent sign, are transmitted as-is, while characters needing encoding (e.g. space, newline, the percent sign itself) are represented as %xx where xx is the hexadecimal value of the octet to be encoded.
See RFC3986:2.1 for more details.