Channel Names
Understand the naming criteria and format required for Vivox channels.
Read time 1 minuteLast updated 2 days ago
When you create a channel name, the following criteria apply:
- Maximum of 200 characters
- Use only the following characters:
Alphanumerics | 0-9, A-Z, a-z | 0x30-0x39, 0x41-0x5A, 0x61-0x7A |
|---|---|---|
| Exclamation mark | ' ! ' | 0x21 |
| Open parenthesis | ' ( ' | 0x28 |
| Close parenthesis | ' ) ' | 0x29 |
| Plus | ' + ' | 0x2B |
| Minus | ' - ' | 0x2D |
| Period | ' . ' | 0x2E |
| Equals | ' = ' | 0x3D |
| Underscore | ' _ ' | 0x5F |
| Tilde | ' ~ ' | 0x7E |
| Percent | ' % ' | 0x7F |
The recommended best practice is to URL-encode the channel name by using only uppercase hex digit characters. Lowercase characters are allowed in the channel name, but not when used as the hex digit characters.
Channel names must start with a confctl prefix and channel type, followed by your issuer, followed by a period '.'.
For example, if your issuer name is "crux", then a valid channel name is
confctl-g-crux.0verl0rd-channel