title: mLab Connect Error: Database name cannot have reserved characters for mongodb://
body: <p>I'm encountering a mongoDB connect error while running mLab commands to connect through mongo shell. Running under Windows git bash terminal with mLab command below. I'm not using any reserved characters for database name, basically just a lowercase string. Any idea?</p>
  
  <p>To connect using the mongo shell:</p>
  
  <pre><code>mongo ds237967.mlab.com:37967/&lt;database&gt; -u &lt;dbuser&gt; -p &lt;dbpassword&gt;
  
  
  
  
  
  connecting to: mongodb://&lt;database&gt;:27017/ds237967.mlab.com%3A37967
  2018-01-01T00:20:45.371-0800 E QUERY    [thread1] Error: Database name cannot have reserved characters for mongodb:// URL: mongodb://&lt;databasename&gt;:27017/ds237967.mlab.com%3A37967 :
  connect@src/mongo/shell/mongo.js:240:13
  @(connect):1:6
  exception: connect failed
  </code></pre>