Difference between Url Encode and HTML encode

Question

What’s the difference between an URL Encode and a HTML Encode?

Answer 1

I don't know what language you are working in, but the PHP manual for example provides good explanations.

URLEncode

Returns a string in which all non-alphanumeric characters except -_. have been replaced with a percent (%) sign followed by two hex digits and spaces encoded as plus (+) signs. It is encoded the same way that the posted data from a WWW form is encoded, that is the same way as in application/x-www-form-urlencoded media type. This differs from the » RFC 1738 encoding (see rawurlencode()) in that for historical reasons, spaces are encoded as plus (+) signs.

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