Normally things dangle from your colon...
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Compare http://www.toodarkpark.org/computers/humor/shoot-self-in-foot.html with http://www.toodarkpark.org/computers/humor/shoot-self-in-foot.html: you'll see the second link ist borkan.
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Well yeah. That's also true if you compare http://www.toodarkpark.org/computers/humor/shoot-self-in-foot.html with http://www.toodarkpark.org/computers/humor/shoot-self-in-foot.htmlandabunchofextrastuffontheend
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@hungrier True, but a colon isn't valid in that part of the URL, so shouldn't be included in it.
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@RaceProUK Colons are perfectly valid. For example, Wikipedia uses them all over the place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Subpages
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@hungrier But at the very end?
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@RaceProUK said in Normally things dangle from your colon...:
@hungrier But at the very end?
According to RFC 3986, yes. However, that doesn't mean that that should be the preferred parsing in the face of ambiguity; URLs can technically end in a period as well.