Encode and decode an URL using PowerShell coding

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Here in this post, I will show how to encode and decode the URL using PowerShell coding.

Introduction:

A website’s URL, also usually known as the “website address”, is what we would enter into a web browser in order to access a specific website’s resource.

and a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is the unique address to access any resource in the world wide web. URLs have a well-defined structure and unique which was invented in RFC 1738 by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web.

What is encoded URL?

URL encoding is a technique or mechanism for translating unprintable or special characters to a universally accepted format by web servers and browsers.

The most commonly encoded character in URL string is the character. We see this character whenever we see a plus-sign (+) in a URL which represents the space character. The plus sign acts as a special character representing that space in a URL.

What is decoded URL?

This is just the reverse process of encoding – translating back the URL to the readable english characters.

PowerShell Code to handle the URL encoding and decoding:

cls
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Web

$webURL="https://globalsharepoint.sharepoint.com/sites/TestSite/Shared Documents/"
Write-Host "The original url is " $webURL -ForegroundColor Green
#The below code is used to encode the URL
$urlToEncode = $webURL
$encodedURL = [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlEncode($urlToEncode) 
Write-Host "The encoded url is: " $encodedURL -ForegroundColor Green
#Encode URL code ends here

#The below code is used to decode the URL.
$urlTodDecode = $encodedURL
$decodedURL = [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlDecode($urlTodDecode)
Write-Host "The decoded url is: " $decodedURL -ForegroundColor Green
#Decode URL code ends here.

Test – Output:

URLEncodingDecoding

Using online URL encoding and decoding:

There are many open web sites using which we can encode and decode the URL, the below URL is one among them.

https://urldecode.org/

Summary:

Thus, in this post we have learned the below concepts:

  • How to a decode a string.
  • How to encode an URL using PowerShell.
  • How to decode an URL using PowerShell.
  • How to decode url in online.

 

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