Why Your API Calls Break: A Developer's Guide to URL Encoding
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Why Your API Calls Break: A Developer's Guide to URL Encoding URL encoding is one of those things that seems trivial until it isn't. You fire off an API call, the server returns a 400, and you stare at the URL wondering what went wrong. Nine times out of ten, the answer is encoding. Here are the three URL encoding mistakes that cost developers hours of debugging — and how to fix them in 30 seconds. 1. The Double-Encoding Trap This is the most insidious bug. You encode a U