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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.

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did you try to html.encode the querystring before sending? –  Razzie Nov 23 '09 at 13:15
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Use HttpUtility.UrlEncode –  Mauricio Scheffer Nov 23 '09 at 13:22
    
errr, yeah I meant that :) –  Razzie Nov 23 '09 at 13:30
    
actually the request will come from an iPhone app, i don't have control of encoding the url before sending it! –  Galilyou Nov 23 '09 at 14:19
    
then use encodeURIComponent to encode it with javascript –  Mauricio Scheffer Nov 23 '09 at 16:43

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See this question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/591694/url-encoded-slash-in-url.

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

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I've edited .. check again please! –  Galilyou Nov 23 '09 at 14:21
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Modify your route as /myaction/{*inputURL*}. This will catch all after myaction.

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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. –  Galilyou Nov 24 '09 at 9:46

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