How to pass email as a parameter at the end of URL in ASP.NET MVC web API?

Question

like below:

test.com/api/sales/getcustomerorders/test@test.com

I want to pass the email address as a parameter to the getcustomerorders action.

we can pass using query string. But I want to format the url like above.

Thanks.

you have to encode the @ sign in the URL as it is a reserved character. Should look something like this: test.com/api/sales/getcustomerorders/test%40test.com — Dirk Trilsbeek, Oct 11 '12 at 13:46
I tried the same url here(with @) and it works.. What's going wrong? — MuriloKunze, Oct 11 '12 at 14:23

score 38 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 19 '15 at 04:48

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In WebApiConfig make the route as "/{email}/". The end "/" will prevent you from getting No HTTP resource was found that matches the request URI ...

answered Mar 19 '15 at 04:48

Damitha

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Easy and simple solution. No configuration changes or anything else needed. Thanks for posting. – Marwan مروان Apr 17 '15 at 17:34
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This worked for me. Can you please explain why this works? I don't understand it. – spoof3r Oct 11 '15 at 22:36
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The reason it works is it takes that field {email} and it will match that vs the string it is expecting for email, which matches anything following that, including a@b.com and stuffs it into the email var. LOVE this answer btw I spent a few hours trying to google special chars to avoid and everything else (worked until I put an '@' in the URL, then it redirected to login - which was very weird. Thanks! – Traderhut Games Sep 05 '18 at 00:32

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 11 '12 at 19:39

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The problem here is that you have period in the url.

In order to make it work, change you web config to add following two configurations:

<configuration>
  <system.web>
    <httpRuntime relaxedUrlToFileSystemMapping="true" />
  </system.web>
  <system.webServer>
    <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"/>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Haacked has a blog about relexUrlToFileSystemMapping http://haacked.com/archive/2010/04/29/allowing-reserved-filenames-in-URLs.aspx

And I have a bug about it in IIS express 8 and need the runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests: https://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/workitem/226

answered Oct 11 '12 at 19:39

Hongye Sun

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It works but if you refer to [this link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11048863/modules-runallmanagedmodulesforallrequests-true-meaning) it will slow your app because you load all module for all requests.. – davidlebr1 Aug 17 '15 at 20:09
just runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests is needed to allow an email address since a period is used in the URL – user2320464 Oct 08 '15 at 15:01

score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 11 '12 at 16:22

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Scott Hanselman covers this in this blog post. As an alternative you could pass the email as a query string parameter and not as part of the path since certain characters are not allowed.

answered Oct 11 '12 at 16:22

Darin Dimitrov

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How to pass email as a parameter at the end of URL in ASP.NET MVC web API?

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