Periods, apostrophies and Colons in Filenames?

[vetofunk]

Are periods and colons allowed in file names?

For example:

http://example.com/brand/product-corp.
or
http://example.com/brand/product:-product
or
http://example.com/brand/product.:-product's

First time working with this developer and I have never seen stuff like this...

[edited by: tedster at 7:58 am (utc) on Dec. 4, 2007]
[edit reason] switch to example.com - it can never be owned [/edit]

[BlobFisk]

Hi vetofunk,

Technically yes but they will be converted into HTML Escape characters.

Personally I try to avoid them!

HTH

[jdMorgan]

I strongly suggest you stick with RFC 2396 - Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax [faqs.org] to avoid future technical problems. Also, consider the confusion and errors this might cause for type-ins and people who want to link to your pages.

Stick with standards.

Jim