MVC3 Razor URL.Action Parameter Value with forward slash. giving error

Question

Its a small question on MVC3 Razor, I have a string ID like "a/b" when I am trying to call details or delete method of Controller. Getting error as system assuming "a/b" as 2 parameters but I have to pass this in one string value parameters.

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< a href="@Url.Action("Details", "Search", new {id = "a/b"})">Details </a>

My Controller/method is like Search/Details (string id)

And I want to send id = 'a/b' . but .Net assuming it as 2 parameters in URL.

Please suggest.

Answer 1

It appears that forward slashes are not automatically encoded, and the reason is probably because even if they are encoded (%2f), by the time they reach the routing engine they have been decoded back to a forward slash. (Search for Robj in this post by Phil Haack (former manager on the MVC team)).

However, .NET MVC Routing w/ Url Encoding Problems poses the same problem, and it appears that the only way to solve this is to insert the encoded slash into a query string. Something like this:

< a href="@Url.Action("Details", "Search")?id=@Url.Encode("a/b")">Details </a>

and then, dealing with it in your method by accessing:

Request["id"]

Answer 2

You should use an escaped URL, so that parameter would be a%2Fb