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Eduardo
Eduardo

Reputation: 5933

Can't encode slash in URL

http://myhost/MyController/DoSomething/Anything%252fAnything is a bad request

http://myhost/MyController/DoSomething/Anything%2fAnything is the same as http://myhost/MyController/DoSomething/Anything/Anything

What URL sends the string "Anything/Anything" to my controller?

How to make Html.ActionLink to generate that URL?

EDIT: It should be able to handle "Anything/Anything/Anything/Anything....../Anything" also

I'm using MVC 3.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 729

Answers (2)

Massimo Zerbini
Massimo Zerbini

Reputation: 3191

If you want to define a route that defines variable lenght routes, you can use this kind of definition: 

routes.MapRoute("MyRoute", "{controller}/{action}/{id}/{*catchall}",
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional });

Put it before others route definitions in your global.asax.cs

Upvotes: 2

Larry K
Larry K

Reputation: 49104

The routing machinery wants to handle the slashes. So add a routing rule such as

url = [controller]/[action]/[id1]/[id2]

See post

Or use urls such as 

http://myhost/MyController/DoSomething/Anything?id2=Anything

It may be possible to handle as a default--but in that case, the rules for the other routes will have to explicitly NOT match your controller/action name. Otherwise a prior rule will apply.

It could also be that the entire url is available from a system var. Is your controller being called at all?

Upvotes: 0

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