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colon is a character which can be encoded to '%3A' as per many sites and when I try to encode using URIencode it is not working
for example if I try to encode like URIencode(':'); then nothing happens. colon is returned. Why is this?? can someone help me out here.
Thanks in advance.
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Colon IS an invalid character in URL unless it is used for its purpose (for eg http://). "...Only alphanumerics [0-9a-zA-Z], the special characters "$-_. +! *'()," [not including the quotes - ed], and reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used unencoded within a URL."
It is completely fine to use a colon : in a URL path.
URL encoding converts characters into a format that can be transmitted over the Internet. - w3Schools. So, "/" is actually a seperator, but "%2f" becomes an ordinary character that simply represents "/" character in element of your url.
The encodeURI() encodes special characters, except:
, / ? : @ & = + $ #
You should use this instead encodeURIComponent(':');
This function encodes special characters. In addition, it encodes the characters skipped by encodeURI()
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