Why do we need to encode some characters in url ?

I can't understand the need of url encoding and why some characters are safe and other characters are unsafe? I tried different resources to understand. But i really can't understand the point of url encoding.

Posted Feb 20, 2019, 7:24 AM UTC

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HarrityRandall•

Lets say you want to name a directory on your webserver and give it a URL with the '/' character in it, you know that chacarcter is used to define paths... It's ambiguos then as you see, and that's just one example

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