A URL is another word for a web address.

A URL can be composed of words (e.g. w3schools.com), or an Internet Protocol (IP) address (e.g. 192.68.20.50).

Most people enter the name when surfing, because names are easier to remember than numbers.

The table below lists some common schemes:

URLs can only be sent over the Internet using the ASCII character-set. If a URL contains characters outside the ASCII set, the URL has to be converted.

URL encoding converts non-ASCII characters into a format that can be transmitted over the Internet.

URL encoding replaces non-ASCII characters with a "%" followed by hexadecimal digits.

URLs cannot contain spaces. URL encoding normally replaces a space with a plus (+) sign, or %20.

Example of URL Encoding

If you click "Submit", the browser will URL encode the input before it is sent to the server. A page at the server will display the received input. Try some other input and click Submit again.

index.html

Suppose Your Normal url: https://horje.com/Hello Günter
URL Encoding url: https://horje.com/Hello%20G%C3%BCnter

Output should be:

Your browser will encode input, according to the character-set used in your page.

The default character-set in HTML5 is UTF-8.