Do you avoid using specific characters in friendly URL?
Last updated by Brady Stroud [SSW] 8 months ago.See historyWhen adding a friendly URL, please avoid using specific characters like + : # & , ) ( ! \ } { @ / = $ (and so on) due to these reasons:
- When adding a friendly URL, we meant to make it friendly and easy for the user to read and remember, and these characters add complexity
- Some characters are unsafe characters, they will be encoded, which end up making the URL really messy and ugly. Example: double quote (“) will be encoded as %22.
SharePoint
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.
http://ssw.com.au/rules/when-to-use-+1
Figure: Bad example - This URL will throw a 404 error rather than redirecting to https://
http://ssw.com.au/rules/when-to-use-plus-1
Figure: Good example - Redirect works fine if the URL doesn't include “+"
