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Asked: 2026-05-19T03:12:52+00:00

I’ve seen that IIS has a problem with letting colons into URLs. I also

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I’ve seen that IIS has a problem with letting colons into URLs. I also saw the suggestions others offered here.

With the site I’m working on, I want to be able to pass titles of movies, books, etc., into my URL, colon included, like this:

mysite.com/Movie/Bob:The Return

This would be consumed by my MovieController, for example, as a string and used further down the line.

I realize that a colon is not ideal. Does anyone have any other suggestions? As poor as it currently is, I’m doing a find-and-replace from all colons (:) to another character, then a backwards replace when I want to consume it on the Controller end.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Consider URL encoding and decoding your movie titles.

    You’d end up with foo.com/bar/Bob%58The%20Return

    As an alternative, consider leveraging an HTML helper to remove URL unfriendly characters in URLs (method is URLFriendly()). The SEO benefits between a colon and a placeholder (e.g. a dash) would likely be negligable.

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