As stated in the jira, we should come up with either a set of allowed or a set of disallowed characters for connector names to avoid a couple of issues that currently exist.
I tend towards a whitelisting approach to avoid missing a lot of things that then need to be fixed later on. According to RFC 3986 the set of allowed characters for a path element in a URI is: a-z A-Z 0-9 . - _ ~ ! $ & ' ( ) * + , ; = : @ So my initial suggestion as basis for discussion would be to go with these and test whether any of those create issues - then we can see whether its worth fixing the issues, or easier to just blacklist the characters.
