System.Uri problem

[Guest]

I have a URL that I can open in the browser, but System.Uri removes a slash
when it encounters an extra http: in the URL.

Here is the URL:

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/rd/5581...zSzdoczSzhybrid_automata.pdf/alur92hybrid.pdf

System.Uri changes the above URL to (notice that http:// after Download is
changed to http:/)

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/rd/5581...zSzdoczSzhybrid_automata.pdf/alur92hybrid.pdf

As a result, I get NameResolution exception when making
HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() calls.

 

[Frisky]

Have your looked at http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/URI_Overview.html?

It appears that this is not a legal URI.

Frisky

 

[Guest]

But I can open the URL in the browser. It is within the code that I am having
the problem accessing the URL, since System.Uri is removing a slash.

 

[Frisky]

Jason,

I do not presume to be an expert on URI's. But, I did want to try to help.
So, take this with a grain, scatch that, a block of salt.

I think that the URL would load, because the first part of the URI seems
perfectly fine. It is the part you are having a problem with where I think
the URI is bad.

How are you trying to access the URI? From C# code?

I would presume you have some from of web page with a filter to get this all
to work.

Have you checked the headers attached to the HTTP request? (Presuming the
above is correct)

Frisky