I Want to use an "!" in my URL???

[StefanRSA]

I am sure I would be able to do so in my url...? Is it a good thing regarding search engines? And if I can.... How can I? Even if its not a good thing for search engine spiders will I have no problem using it in my section of my site that I want to keep secure

 

[cags]

What part of the URL do you wish to use it in? To my knowledge it's not a valid character for a domain name for instance, but I believe it is a valid URL character that can appear in a $_GET parameter without encoding first.

[StefanRSA]

I want the url to look something like this:

http://www.mydomain.com/Good-Morning!/whatever-next

 

I know I can do this:

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z-]+)/new$ /mypage.php?catid=$1&nav=new [L]

To accept multiple Letters and number... How to include a symbol?

[cags]

I've never used an exclamation mark in an .htaccess Regular Expression, but I cant see it being any differen't to 'normal' patterns so...

 

^([A-Za-z!-]+)/new$

[StefanRSA]

Thanks cags. Its working... Do you know how this will affect google?

[cags]

I can't personally see it effecting it either way, it's a valid character and it's also human readable, I see no reason Google should penalise it. But that's just my opinion, I have no facts or research to back that up.