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  2. Percent-encoding - Wikipedia

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    Percent-encoding. URL encoding, officially known as percent-encoding, is a method to encode arbitrary data in a uniform resource identifier (URI) using only the US-ASCII characters legal within a URI. Although it is known as URL encoding, it is also used more generally within the main Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) set, which includes both ...

  3. Query string - Wikipedia

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    A query string is a part of a uniform resource locator (URL) that assigns values to specified parameters. A query string commonly includes fields added to a base URL by a Web browser or other client application, for example as part of an HTML document, choosing the appearance of a page, or jumping to positions in multimedia content. An address ...

  4. Base64 - Wikipedia

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    Base64. In computer programming, Base64 is a group of binary-to-text encoding schemes that transforms binary data into a sequence of printable characters, limited to a set of 64 unique characters. More specifically, the source binary data is taken 6 bits at a time, then this group of 6 bits is mapped to one of 64 unique characters.

  5. QR code - Wikipedia

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    The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. [5] [6] [7] The initial alternating-square design presented by the team of researchers, headed by Masahiro Hara, was influenced by the black counters and the white counters played on a Go board; [8] the pattern of position detection was found and determined by applying the least-used ratio (1:1:3 ...

  6. URL - Wikipedia

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    A uniform resource locator (URL), colloquially known as an address on the Web, [1] is a reference to a resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), [ 2 ] [ 3 ] although many people use the two terms interchangeably.

  7. List of HTTP header fields - Wikipedia

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    Transfer-Encoding: The form of encoding used to safely transfer the entity to the user. Currently defined methods are: chunked, compress, deflate, gzip, identity. Must not be used with HTTP/2. [14] Transfer-Encoding: chunked: Permanent RFC 9110: Tk Tracking Status header, value suggested to be sent in response to a DNT(do-not-track), possible ...

  8. List of URI schemes - Wikipedia

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    These include well known ones like: file - File URI scheme. ftp – File Transfer Protocol. http – Hypertext Transfer Protocol. https – Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure. imap – Internet Message Access Protocol. irc – Internet Relay Chat. nntp – Network News Transfer Protocol. as well as many lesser known schemes like:

  9. UTF-8 - Wikipedia

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    UTF-8 is a character encoding standard used for electronic communication. Defined by the Unicode Standard, the name is derived from Unicode Transformation Format – 8-bit. [ 1 ] Almost every web page is stored in UTF-8. UTF-8 is capable of encoding all 1,112,064 [ 2 ] valid Unicode code points using a variable-width encoding of one to four one ...