Are colons allowed in URLs?

Question

I thought using colons in URIs was \"illegal\". Then I saw that vimeo.com is using URIs like http://www.vimeo.com/tag:sample.

1. What do you feel ab

Answer 1

Colons are allowed in the URI path. But you need to be careful when writing relative URI paths with a colon since it is not allowed when used like this:

In this case tag would be interpreted as the URI’s scheme. Instead you need to write it like this: