How to add dot in cloaked url?

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  • Josh Kohlbach

    (@jkohlbach)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Divvy,

    As far as I’m aware this will be WordPress changing the slug on you as part of it’s in-built protection.

    I believe the reason is that .’s aren’t allowed in URLs past the .com TLD part of the URL.

    Hope this helps!

    Josh

    Thread Starter Divvy

    (@divvy)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    Hey jkohlbach, thank you for your reply.

    But I think that is not a problem using a url like:
    http://www.mydomain.com/go/externaldomain.com

    I have seen this in other websites too…

    I know that both urls works well with your plugin… but I dont know if Im going to have problems in the future. Or is safe to work with the dot one? Can you confirm? I just dont want my urls stopped to work someday 🙂

    Waiting for your reply, thanks!
    Tim

    Josh Kohlbach

    (@jkohlbach)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Tim,

    I just gave this a test myself and it appears WordPress is actually still stripping the . from the URL slug for me.

    Can you confirm how you’re managing to get the . into the URL?

    Personally I would not risk it and would use a more valid URL syntax. The escaping filters for this are controlled by WordPress via the esc_url function which we use on all slugs and link redirects. I would advise sticking to the WordPress convention where possible.

    Cheers,
    Josh

    Thread Starter Divvy

    (@divvy)

    8 years, 6 months ago

    Hey Josh,

    Thank you very much for your reply.

    You were right, the problem was in wordpress and not in your plugin, I installed a plugin that fixed this for me and now I can use dots in my urls:
    http://txfx.net/wordpress-plugins/periods-in-titles/

    Thank you anyway my friend 🙂

    Kind regards,
    Tim

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