Chromecast - URL format

Question

According to this post: Characters allowed in a URL, () are allowed in URLs. But when I try to feed a URL with a pair of parenthesis in it to chromecast, chromecast couldn't find the file specified by the URL and displays nothing but a black background on the big screen. But things work well if I remove the parenthesis or substitute with square brackets. So are () not allowed in a URL for chromecast?

Answer 1

You need to encode "(" and ")" (use %29 and %28), rfc3986 (2005) supersedes 1738 (1994) which is referenced in the post you had mentioned.