How can I send a GET request containing a colon, to an ASP.NET MVC2 controller?

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Published on 2010-04-07T14:15:38Z Indexed on 2010/04/07 14:43 UTC
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This works fine:

GET /mvc/Movies/TitleIncludes/Lara%20Croft

When I submit a request that contains a colon, like this:

GET /mvc/Movies/TitleIncludes/Lara%20Croft:%20Tomb

...it generates a 400 error. The error says ASP.NET detected invalid characters in the URL.

If I try url-escaping, the request looks like this:

GET /mvc/Movies/TitleIncludes/Lara%20Croft%3A%20Tomb

...and this also gives me a 400 error.

If I replace the colon with a | :

GET /mvc/Movies/TitleIncludes/Lara%20Croft|%20Tomb

..that was also rejeted as illegal, this time with a 500 error. The message: Illegal characters in path.

URL-escaping that | results in the same error.

I really, really don't want to use a querystring parameter.

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Sending URLs/paths to ASP.NET MVC controller actions

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