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shogeluk
shogeluk

Reputation: 43

Removing Localhost url in asp mvc

Just having a problem trying to properly display an image from an external site but mvc constraints links and automatically adds the localhost: url at the start of everything even with custom routing this cannot be avoided

eg I require: www.google.com/finance/chart?q=NYSE:V&tlf=12

but i am getting: http://localhost:3022/www.google.com/finance/chart?q=NYSE:V&tlf=12

any help would be much appreciated

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3226

Answers (2)

gideon
gideon

Reputation: 19465

If you require a link on a separate domain, you need to add http://

So :

http://www.google.com/finance/chart?q=NYSE:V&tlf=12

Should work!

Why? Without the http, the link is considered relative and the browser uses the relative domain -> localhost!

Upvotes: 0

Andrew Barber
Andrew Barber

Reputation: 40150

Your problem is not MVC; it is the formation of your <a> tags. You are doing it like this:

<a href="www.google.com/finance/chart?q=NYSE:V&tlf=12">blah...</a>

You should be doing it like this:

<a href="http://www.google.com/finance/chart?q=NYSE:V&tlf=12">blah...</a>

Without including the protocol at the beginning, the browser assumes your link is relative to the current site. It has nothing whatsoever to do with MVC.

Upvotes: 8

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