URLEncode and URLDecode
URL Encoding is used when placing text in a query string to avoid it being confused with the URL itself. Some times you need to pass data from browser to web server in query string and data may be having some text which may confuse web server.
URL encoding is normally performed to convert data passed via html forms, because such data may contain special character, such as “/”, “.”, “#”, and so on, which could either: a) have special meanings; or b) is not a valid character for an URL; or c) could be altered during transfer. For instance, the “#” character needs to be encoded because it has a special meaning of that of an html anchor. The
URL encoding can also be used while passing data in XML format because some of the characters are not valid in XML. I faced this problem while passing Regular expressions in XML. XML provide other ways also for passing non-valid characters of XML but if you do not want to change your parsing logic you can use URL encoded data to transfer in the form of XML data.
Many programming languages provide tools and ways to do URL encoding and URL decoding. If you want to URL encode a particular text you can visit http://www.albionresearch.com
You can URL encode and decode your text for using
Read more about URL encoding
http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/ref_urlencode.asp
http://www.permadi.com/tutorial/urlEncoding/
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