URL Encoder Decoder

What is URL Encoding Decoding?

URL Encoding is the process of converting string into valid URL format. Valid URL format means that the URL contains only what is termed "alpha | digit | safe | extra | escape" characters. URL encoding is needed to convert the special characters to a standard form which otherwise may have some different meaning. Example of special characters are '/', '.', '=', '+', '#' etc. which if not encoded properly may change the URL behavior. Further, URL decoding means to convert the URL into human readable form.