Can I use asterisks in URLs?

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Published on 2011-06-25T04:55:46Z Indexed on 2011/06/25 16:30 UTC
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Are there any reasons I shouldn't use an asterisk (*) in a URL?

Background:

With asterisks, I could provide these nice and user friendly (or what do you think??) URLs:

  • example.com/some/folder/search-phrase*
    means search for pages with names starting with "search-phrase", located in /some/folder/.

  • example.com/some/**/*search-phrase*
    means search for any page with "search-phrase" anywhere in its name.

  • example.com/some/folder/*
    means list all pages in /some/folder/ (rather than showing the /some/folder/index page).

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