AI engineering glossary · Web APIs HTTP
What is URL encoding?
URL encoding (also called Percent-encoding): A way of writing characters that are not allowed or have special meaning in a URL as a percent sign followed by two hex digits, so a space becomes %20. It keeps query values from breaking the address.
URL encoding: an example
The query q=chai & samosa is sent as q=chai%20%26%20samosa.
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Where you learn it
URL encoding is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.