Experiments of Mixing Slashes
And found that all those browsers accept URLs written with forward slashes ( / , the correct form), URLs written with backslashes ( \ , an incorrect form) and URLs written with mixed slashes in their path part ( / & \ , another incorrect form).
What characters Cannot be used in a URL?
These characters are { , } , | , \ , ^ , ~ , [ , ] , and ` . All unsafe characters must always be encoded within a URL.
Can URL have special characters?
Some characters cannot be part of a URL (for example, the space) and some other characters have a special meaning in a URL. In HTML forms, the character = is used to separate a name from a value. ... For example, spaces in a string are either encoded with %20 or replaced with the plus sign ( + ).
