Why is there a colon in CNC?

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IJIL2015-12-29 23:05:58

URL Handling

IJIL, 2015-12-29 23:05:58

In Wikipedia, as well as other wiki engines, you can find in the url, for example, Wikipedia:Help, Portal:Events, etc. cnc with colons. Actually interests why it is made so, but not through a slash. How does this affect indexing. And where can I read the official documentation on this?

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Risiki, 2015-12-29
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The colon character is reserved for specifying the protocol and port. Not all web servers process this character in the address normally.