Query string with slashes "/" not working in asp.net mvc?

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I have a special case here:
My action method accepts one parameter, this parameter is expected to be a full url (e.g. http://www.somesite.com/article/onesite?hello=whatever&etc=blah). When working with old asp.net (oh, excuse me guys, I mean web forms) this works just fine, but when using asp.net mvc and preparing the required route ("/myaction/{inputUrl" with no constraints on inputUrl) it fails. If the url has any slashes I get an "Bad Request" exception. What should I do? Should I add a regex constraint on the passed in url to match a web url? What do you think dear SO Gus?

PS: The resource will be requested from an iPhone app, which means, I don't have any control over the coming url (i.e. I can't encode it!)

Thanks in advance.

actually the request will come from an iPhone app, i don't have control of encoding the url before sending it! — Ahmed, Nov 23 '09 at 14:19

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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See this question URL-encoded slash in URL.

Even UrlEncode will not help here. The behaviour changes in MVC2.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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answered Nov 23 '09 at 13:23

Mathias F

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 23 '09 at 14:22

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Modify your route as /myaction/{*inputURL*}. This will catch all after myaction.

answered Nov 23 '09 at 14:22

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I already have a catch-all route set to something else. I can't have more than one catch-all routes. – Ahmed Nov 24 '09 at 09:46

Query string with slashes "/" not working in asp.net mvc?

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