Possible to Convert Hyperlink with Illegal Characters?

[Phillip Ponzer _Cprime_]

In our MediaWiki server, we have hundreds of hyperlinks that have illegal characters in the URL.

Specifically, the illegal characters are:
/
:
;

Is there any work-around or process for getting these hyperlinks imported into Confluence without making them unusable?

[Phillip Ponzer _Cprime_ · Accepted solution]

I explained my full solution to this issue here:

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/31829/confluence-support-non-http-ftp-hyperlinks/33434

[Phillip Ponzer _Cprime_]

Turns out escaping the illegal characters with back-slashes (\) works very well.

i.e.
colon = \:
semi-colon = \;
forward-slash = \/

[Phillip Ponzer _Cprime_]

Can't use the HTML equivalent, since it also contains illegal characters... currently looking into URL encoded characters (since this is a URL).

i.e.
colon = %3A
semi-colon = %3B
forward-slash = %2F

[Phillip Ponzer _Cprime_]

Would it workable to replace those illegal characters with the HTML equivalent?

i.e. replace : with :