What does “the value of the cookie is automatically URLencoded when sending the cookie, and automatically decoded when received” mean?
While learning the concept of Cookies in PHP, I come across the following statement from w3schools PHP Tutorial : The value of the cookie is automatically URLencoded when sending the cookie, and automatically decoded when received (to prevent URLencoding, use setrawcookie() instead) I did not get the meaning of this statement. I have following doubts regarding the above statement : From where the cookie is being sent to whom and at where the cookie is being received from whom? What actually does happen by means of "Value of the cookie is automatically URLencoded when sending the cookie, and