Why is the comma URL encoded?

Question

When debugging in ASP.NET MVC, I don\'t see a difference between:

http://mysite.com?q=hi,bye

and

http://mysite.com?q=hi%2Cb         


        

Answer 1

there are several characters that hold special meaning(like + ? # etc) or are directly not allowed(like space, comma etc) in a URL. to use such characters in a URL, u need to encode and decode them. Read more Here

ASP.NET automatically encodes and decodes all required characters like this so u need not worry about them.