Question

What is percent encoding and why is it used?

Answer 1

Answer:

 Percent encoding is the mechanism for encoding the information in the URI  (Uniform resource identifier) that basically transmitted the special variable or characters in the URI to the cloud platform.

It is also used in various application for transferring the data by using the HTTP requests.

Percent encoding is also known as uniform resource locator (URL) encoding. The percent encoding basically used to convert the non ASCII characters into URL format which is basically understandable to the all the web server and browsers. In percent encoding the percent sign is known as escape character.