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I’m building a small system, which has nice htaccess rewritten urls. Now I’m wondering if it’s a good idea to use colons for it. Here’s an example:
domain.tld/section:Foo/page:12
It’s a lot more stable than something like this, as it describes every string:
domain.tld/section/Foo/12
The only problem is, will all browsers support it right? I know Wikipedia uses them 🙂
Matti Laine
It’s highly unrecommended.
It’s not standards-compliant, and can cause some trouble.
See: Is a colon safe for friendly-URL use?