Does a in a URL scheme host path represent a space

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I am aware that a   in the query string of a URL represents a space  Is this also the case outside of the query string region  That is to say  does the following URL   http   a com a b c   actually represent   http   a com a b c    and thus need to be encoded if it should actually be a     or does it in fact actually represent a b c

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Thou shalt always encode URLs   Here is how Ruby encodes your URL   irb main  008 0 gt  CGI escape  a com a b    gt   a com 2Fa 2Bb

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Percent encoding in the path section of a URL is expected to be decoded  but any   characters in the path component is expected to be treated literally   To be explicit    is only a special character in the query component  https   tools ietf org html rfc3986

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use encodeURIComponent function to fix url  it works on Browser and node js  res redirect   signin email   encodeURIComponent  aaa bbb-ccc example com        gt  encodeURIComponent  http   a com a b c    http 3A 2F 2Fa com 2Fa 2Bb 2Fc

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You can find a nice list of corresponding URL encoded characters on W3Schools      becomes  2B space becomes  20

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Try below    lt script type  text javascript  gt   function resetPassword        url   submitForgotPassword html email   fixEscape Stringwith char     function fixEscape str        return escape str  replace         2B        lt  script gt

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Space characters may only be encoded as     in one context  application x-www-form-urlencoded key-value pairs   The RFC-1866  HTML 2 0 specification   paragraph 8 2 1  subparagraph 1  says   The form field names and values are escaped  space characters are replaced by      and then reserved characters are escaped     Here is an example of such a string in URL where RFC-1866 allows encoding spaces as pluses   http   example com over there name foo bar   So  only after      spaces can be replaced by pluses  in other cases  spaces should be encoded to  20   This way of encoding form data is also given in later HTML specifications  for example  look for relevant paragraphs about application x-www-form-urlencoded in HTML 4 01 Specification  and so on    But  because it s hard to always correctly determine the context  it s the best practice to never encode spaces as      It s better to percent-encode all character except  unreserved  defined in RFC-3986  p 2 3  Here is a code example that illustrates what should be encoded  It is given in Delphi  pascal  programming language  but it is very easy to understand how it works for any programmer regardless of the language possessed      percent-encode all unreserved characters as defined in RFC-3986  p 2 3    function UrlEncodeRfcA const S  AnsiString   AnsiString  const       HexCharArrA  array  0  15  of AnsiChar    0123456789ABCDEF   var   I  Integer    c  AnsiChar  begin     percent-encoding  see RFC-3986  p  2 1   Result    S    for I    Length S  downto 1 do   begin     c    S I       case c of        A      Z    a      z      alpha        0      9                  digit        -                         rest of unreserved characters as defined in the RFC-3986  p 2 3       else         begin           Result I                    Insert  00   Result  I   1             Result I   1     HexCharArrA  Byte C  shr 4  and  F              Result I   2     HexCharArrA Byte C  and  F           end      end    end  end   function UrlEncodeRfcW const S  UnicodeString   AnsiString  begin   Result    UrlEncodeRfcA Utf8Encode S    end

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