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Asked: 2026-05-19T14:01:22+00:00

I have some urls formed like in my router mapping /section/{{some_section_name}} /topic/{{some_topic_name}} Now I

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I have some urls formed like in my router mapping

/section/{{some_section_name}}
/topic/{{some_topic_name}}

Now I am thinking to convert the section into shorted by
/!{{some_section_name}} to avoid the explicit spelling of /section

Similarly I would like to use
/@{{some_topic_name}} instead of /topic/{{some_topic_name}}

I believe that browser shall not encode these characters by its own. Is it OK to use ! and @ symbols in the route as mentioned above? Please give me side effects using such a conventions in the web.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The @ character has special meaning on a URL – it is a separator between the (optional) username/password and the host name:

    //<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<url-path>

    See section 3.1 of RFC 1738.

    So, though not strictly a problem for MVC as such, it is more of an issue with the URL schema.

    For HTTP there is no such restriction on the ! character. The allowed characters are listed in the RFC linked above.

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