Do you avoid using specific characters in friendly URL?
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Posted at
27/04/2017 6:27 AM by
Tiago Araujo
Rule Intro
When adding a friendly URL, please avoid using specific characters like “+, :, #, &, (, ), !, *, [, ], {, }, @, /, =, $” and so on due to multiple reasons:
Page Content
- When adding a friendly URL, we meant to make it “friendly" and “easy" for the user to read and remember, so avoid using specific characters and try to make it short.
- Some characters are unsafe characters, they will be encoded, which end up making the URL really messy and ugly, e.g
double quote (“) will be encoded to
%22.
Some characters are reserved characters, which may not be supported by some features, based on our experience, “+" is not supported in “canonical" to redirect from
http to
https.

In the above source code, the URL
http://rules.ssw.com.au:80/do-you-know-when-to-use-+1
[note: don't include as a hyperlink as it's a broken URL] will throw a 404 error rather than redirecting to
https://rules.ssw.com.au:80/do-you-know-when-to-use-+1,but it works fine if the URL doesn't include “+", e.g.
https://rules.ssw.com.au/do-you-know-when-to-use-plus-one.
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Do you feel this rule needs an update?