Is a URL allowed to contain a space?

Question

Is a URI (specifically an HTTP URL) allowed to contain one or more space characters? If a URL must be encoded, is + just a commonly followed convention

Answer 1

URL can have an Space Character in them and they will be displayed as %20 in most of the browsers, but browser encoding rules change quite often and we cannot depend on how a browser will display the URL.

So Instead you can replace the Space Character in the URL with any character that you think shall make the URL More readable and ' Pretty ' ;) ..... O so general characters that are preferred are "-","_","+" .... but these aren't the compulsions so u can use any of the character that is not supposed to be in the URL Already.

Please avoid the %,&,},{,],[,/,>,< as the URL Space Character Replacement as they can pull up an error on certain browsers and Platforms.

As you can see the Stak overflow itself uses the '-' character as Space(%20) replacement.

Have an Happy questioning.