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Kamafeather
Kamafeather

Reputation: 9865

Which parts of a URL must be encoded?

Using POST is easy and automatic: just use application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data or whatever.

Instead, what parts should be encoded in a GET request?

The whole query string? Just the parameter values but not the names? And the fragment?

Maybe also the path? But I'm pretty sure that I shouldn't encode the host or the scheme (there are encoding and specs for international domains, like in Japanese etc.).

Hence the question is more about the URI 😉

I was surprised to not find a clear specific answer on SO, and on the internet too.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 4342

Answers (1)

Ali Rida
Ali Rida

Reputation: 381

We have to encode the parts of the url (excluding the domain name) that may contain symbols and non ASCII characters excluding the slashes “/“ and the operands used by query strings (?, = and &).

Note: if you encode all the second part of the url together including the slashes and the operands used by the query strings, this part will be considered all as a single value and the url may not work properly.

Upvotes: 3

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