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c#asp.net-mvc-routing
niico
niico

Reputation: 12729

Variable in URL with slashes, it's URL Encoded but IIS still sees slashes?

I have a controller with a method that has a variable passed in the route - the Controller:

[Route("cont/{MyParameter}")]
public ActionResult Index(string MyParameter)
{
...
}

When I pass a value (abcdef) in the URL like this it's fine:

http://localhost/my-website/cont/abcdef

But when I pass one with encoded slashes - it fails - as if the slashes aren't encoded - e.g.:

http://localhost/my-website/cont/abc%2fdef

I get a "The Resource cannot be found" in IIS - with a requested URL displayed in the body of:

Requested URL
   http://localhost:80/f-website/cont/abc/def

It appears to have added slashes - even though they were encoded.

The address bar still shows the original URL with %2f in however.

How can I pass / in as a parameter? I thought URL Encoding was the solution here but it apparently is having no effect.

I can find nothing on Google about this specific issue.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 3641

Answers (1)

0lukasz0
0lukasz0

Reputation: 3267

Best solution I found was using a wildcard:

    [HttpGet]
    [Route("my-action-url/{*parameter}")]
    public IActionResult MyAction(string parameter)
    {
      // Some code here
    }

Upvotes: 2

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