URL Encode "password=secret&user=admin"
Original
password=secret&user=admin
URL Encoded
password%3Dsecret%26user%3Dadmin
"password=secret&user=admin" URL encoded is: password%3Dsecret%26user%3Dadmin
Common URL-encoded characters
| Character | Encoded | Name |
|---|---|---|
| %20 | space | |
| / | %2F | slash |
| ? | %3F | question mark |
| = | %3D | equals |
| & | %26 | ampersand |
| @ | %40 | at sign |
| # | %23 | hash |
| + | %2B | plus |
| % | %25 | percent |
How URL encoding works
URL encoding (percent-encoding) replaces unsafe characters with % followed by two hex digits. "password=secret&user=admin" becomes "password%3Dsecret%26user%3Dadmin" because special characters like spaces, @, and / must be encoded in URLs.
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