MVC2 Slash char in url - asp.net-mvc-2

I want to use encrypted strings in MVC2 urls. A typical url in my app looks like this:
http://localhost:29558/Account/PasswordReset/ZKGeDMZikfIsnO8/MEs7SCBlI+MZo1Je8LM5dTEeCt3u91ARPUcavT5UXfVVRfyE
Note that everything after PasswordReset/ is the encrypted string. In the example the encrypted string contains a slash, and this is causing MVC to crash.
I've tried adding a MapRoute in Global.asax.cs as follows:
routes.MapRoute(
"PasswordResetSpecialCase", // Route name
"Account/PasswordReset/*", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Account", action = "PasswordReset" } // Parameter defaults
);
but MVC2 is still falling over because the encrypted string contains a slash char. If I remove the slash then it works, but obviously that's no good.
How do I get MVC2 to regard everything after the PasswordReset as pure data?
Thanks.


Your maproute contains an error. Replace the * with {*nameOfParameter}

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& is an HTML escape sequence, and there are no requirements to treat it as & in URLs. Therefore it would be better to fix your internal system in order to make it generate correct URLs.
However, if you cannot do it for some reason, you can solve this problem in the following (hackish) way:
Create a Filter that would wrap original HttpServlerRequest into your subclass of HttpServlerRequestWrapper.
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Would make sense that Spring would treat it as part of the value, '&' is HTML encoded, not URL encoded.
I would try to figure out why the system is HTML encoding the '&' as '&' rather than building a proper GET string.
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Try:
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In manual to Zend_Application_Resource_Frontcontroller - configuration keys, I have just found this:
baseUrl: explicit base URL to the application (normally auto-detected)
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Use the serverUrl() helper for the hostname.

Did you set the baseurl in your application.ini?
resources.frontController.baseUrl = "/subdir"
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so, /url/http://www.yahoo.com
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<?php
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ASP.NET MVC Route parameter separate by ":" char

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I've got a wildcard route mapped as below:
routes.MapRoute(
null,
"{controller}/{action}/{*category}",
new { controller = "Mall", action = "Index", category = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
This has been working fine until the category has any spaces before or after slashes " / ".
For the category ART/MUSIC, it will find the page fine.
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I've just answered kind of the same question here. For completeness:
If an empty space is at the end of any section of the URL before the next slash, it throws a HttpException in the System.Web.Util.FileUtil.CheckSuspiciousPhysicalPath() method which is handled by MVC and you'll get a HTTP 404 response.
You can verify that yourself by checking the checkbox for Throw in:
Visual Studio
Debug
Exceptions
Common Language Runtime Exceptions
Generally you should not have empty spaces in your URLs. I personally format my urls, that all spaces becomes a dash (-).