Colon in URL

[Alex via DotNetMonster.com]

I am porting an existing PHP application to ASP.NET. Everything works OK,
however IIS returns HTTP 400 - "Bad Request" error if the path or pathinfo
include the ' : ' (colon) symbol. Something like:

/MyApp/Xyz:123/MyPage.aspx

or

/MyApp/MyPage.aspx/Xyz:123

Is there any way to make IIS/ASP.NET process these requests?

 

[clintonG]

Have you tried using the Server.UrlEncode method?


<%= Clinton Gallagher
NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://www.metromilwaukee.com/clintongallagher/

 

[Alex via DotNetMonster.com]

The encoded colon symbol (%3a) does not work either. For
/MyApp/Xyz%3a123/MyPage.aspx and /MyApp/MyPage.aspx/Xyz%3a123
IIS returns the same 'bad request' HTTP error.

 

[clintonG]

Thanks for confirming that.
I know it may sound stoopit to ask but why don't you just whack the colon
out of existence?
If for some reason you have to retain such syntax I surmise you will be
compelled to use an HTTP Module to dyunamically parse and reformat the
malformed URLs on the fly.

<%= Clinton Gallagher
NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://www.metromilwaukee.com/clintongallagher/

 

[Alex via DotNetMonster.com]

I would like to have colon there so the existing (php-based) and new
applications have similar URLs. I will try implementing HTTP Module. Thank
you.

 

[pblse2]

Colon is allowed in the querystring but not in the path itself. This
goes down to the NTFS filesystem, anyone remember the ::$DATA bug ?

Although that is fixed a long time ago the fact is that if it was
allowed you system would be a lot less secure.

PL.