content: WRONG! Voat code is broken. Consult RFC Uniform Resource Identifier specification 3986 (for all web browsers) : http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt As anyone can see in most URLS (with URI portion) Slashes may appear "/" and in fact your revised url trick has several throughout. Also the letters h and t and p may occur anywhere in any order And of course Colon ":" is fully permitted in internet standard in a URI portion of a URL The url I used and showed works in all web browsers and is emitted by that archiving site itself. The URL standard is quite strict for characters and escaping characters. a Forward slash in a URL is NOT ILLEGAL nor is my URL illegal for having http in it or a colon in that section (so long as it does not START with a colon) https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#appendix-A : fragment      = ( pchar / "/" / "?" ) pchar         = unreserved / pct-encoded / sub-delims / ":" / "@" unreserved    = ALPHA / DIGIT / "-" / "." / "_" / "~" pct-encoded   = "%" HEXDIG HEXDIG sub-delims    = "!" / "$" / "&" / "'" / "(" / ")"                  / "" / "+" / "," / ";" / "="    ":" is in pchar, which is in fragment, so : is allowed TL/DR : Voat is provable broken code, and @sniper98g is incorrect according to official internet standards