Path.Combine on urls gives exception : The given path's format is not supported

Question

I have an error in following code

Uri imagesrc = new Uri("http://somewebsite.com/demo/images/slideshow/29.jpg");
Image image = Image.FromFile(Path.Combine("/comph/", imagesrc.ToString()));

I have also tried following code - where /comph/ is my root directory

Image.FromFile(Path.Combine("/comph/","http://some_other_website.com/demo/images/slideshow/29.jpg");

The above image URL is correct when I paste this URL in browser it shows the image.

With the above code an exception is raised:

The given path's format is not supported.

What is wrong with this code ?

System.IO.Path is exclusively for file paths. What is your expected result? `/comph/http://...` isn't valid anyway. — H H, May 13 '15 at 11:02
You cannot get a file like that, you first need to download the image (e.g. in a stream using a webclient). — Kryptos, May 13 '15 at 11:05
Hope this helps http://stackoverflow.com/questions/372865/path-combine-for-urls — Amit, May 13 '15 at 11:15
well the best answer was @Krypto first need to download the image that helped me — skhurams, May 13 '15 at 12:29
You're still not clear about wanting a Path or a URL as outcome. — H H, May 13 '15 at 13:04

Emond · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-13T11:54:32.237

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Path.Combine does not support urls.

You will have to translate the url to a (relative) file path first if you want to use Path.Combine

If you want to manipulate urls you can use the Url constructor that takes a base url and a relative url and combines them.

edited May 13 '15 at 11:54

answered May 13 '15 at 11:02

Emond

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Please note base should not have anything after domain or must end with slash – hungryMind Sep 29 '22 at 16:15

Path.Combine on urls gives exception : The given path's format is not supported

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