Title: colon
Last modified: August 10, 2021

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# colon

 *  [econdadev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/econdadev/)
 * (@econdadev)
 * [4 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/colon/)
 * Hello all,
 * I am currently frustrated by a URL that contains a : (colon). This is probably
   replaced by the YOAST plugin or by some entry in the .htaccess (mod_rewrite) 
   with a %3. Is there a way to not encode colons or any other characters? Unfortunately
   I couldn’t find anything about it anywhere else.
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/).
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by [econdadev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/econdadev/).
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcolon%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Dave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvaer/)
 * (@dvaer)
 * [4 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/colon/#post-14760583)
 * You can use a colon (:) in a URL, but as far as I’m aware it’s a reserved character
   that you can only use at the start; in the http(s):// part.
 * These are some other reserved characters:
 * `reserved = ";" | "/" | "?" | ":" | "@" | "&" | "=" | "+" | "$" | ","`
 * I’m guessing the browser interprets the character and writes something different.
 * Here is more info on [which characters you can use in a URL](https://stackoverflow.com/a/13500078/3218102).

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