ASP.Net How to enforce the HTTP get URL format?
- by Hamish Grubijan
[Sorry about a messy question. I believe I am targeting .Net 2.0 (for now)]
Hi, I am an ASP.NET noob. For starters I am building a page that parses a URL string and populates a table in a database. I want that string to be strictly of the form:
http://<server>:<port>/PageName.aspx?A=1&B=2&C=3&D=4&E=5
The order of the arguments do not matter, I just do not want any of them missing, or any extras. Here is what I tried (yes, it is ugly; I just want to get it to work first):
#if (DEBUG)
// Maps parameter names to their human readable names.
// Used for error checking.
private static Dictionary<string, string> paramNameToDisplayName = new Dictionary<string, string> {
{ A, "a"},
{ B, "b"},
{ C, "c"},
{ D, "d"},
{ E, "e"},
{ F, "f"},
};
[Conditional("DEBUG")]
private void validateRequestParameters(HttpRequest request)
{
bool endResponse = false;
// Use foreach var
foreach (string expectedParameterName in paramNameToDisplayName.Keys)
{
if (request[expectedParameterName] == null)
{
Response.Write(String.Format("No parameter \"{0}\", aka {1} was passed to the configuration generator. Check your URL string / cookie.",
expectedParameterName, paramNameToDisplayName[expectedParameterName]));
endResponse = true;
}
}
// Use foreach var
foreach (string actualParameterName in request.Params)
{
if (!paramNameToDisplayName.ContainsKey(actualParameterName))
{
Response.Write(String.Format("The parameter \"{0}\", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.",
actualParameterName));
endResponse = true;
}
}
if (endResponse)
{
Response.End();
}
}
#endif
and it works ok, except that it complains about all sorts of other stuff:
http://localhost:1796/AddStatusUpdate.aspx?X=0
No parameter "A", aka a was passed to the configuration generator. Check your URL string / cookie.No parameter "B", aka b was passed to the configuration generator. Check your URL string / cookie.No parameter "C", aka c was passed to the configuration generator. Check your URL string / cookie.No parameter "D", aka d was passed to the configuration generator. Check your URL string / cookie.No parameter "E", aka e was passed to the configuration generator. Check your URL string / cookie.No parameter "F", aka f was passed to the configuration generator. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "X", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "ASP.NET_SessionId", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "ALL_HTTP", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "ALL_RAW", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "APPL_MD_PATH", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "APPL_PHYSICAL_PATH", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "AUTH_TYPE", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "AUTH_USER", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "AUTH_PASSWORD", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "LOGON_USER", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "REMOTE_USER", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "CERT_COOKIE", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "CERT_FLAGS", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "CERT_ISSUER", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "CERT_KEYSIZE", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "CERT_SECRETKEYSIZE", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "CERT_SERIALNUMBER", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "CERT_SERVER_ISSUER", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "CERT_SERVER_SUBJECT", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "CERT_SUBJECT", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "CONTENT_LENGTH", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "CONTENT_TYPE", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "GATEWAY_INTERFACE", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "HTTPS", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "HTTPS_KEYSIZE", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "HTTPS_SECRETKEYSIZE", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "HTTPS_SERVER_ISSUER", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "HTTPS_SERVER_SUBJECT", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "INSTANCE_ID", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "INSTANCE_META_PATH", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "LOCAL_ADDR", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "PATH_INFO", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "PATH_TRANSLATED", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "QUERY_STRING", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "REMOTE_ADDR", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "REMOTE_HOST", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "REMOTE_PORT", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "REQUEST_METHOD", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "SCRIPT_NAME", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "SERVER_NAME", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "SERVER_PORT", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "SERVER_PORT_SECURE", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "SERVER_PROTOCOL", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "SERVER_SOFTWARE", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "URL", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "HTTP_CONNECTION", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "HTTP_ACCEPT", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "HTTP_COOKIE", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "HTTP_HOST", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.The parameter "HTTP_USER_AGENT", was passed to the configuration generator, but it was not expected. Check your URL string / cookie.Thread was being aborted.
Is there some way for me to separate the implicit and the explicit parameters, or is it not doable? Should I even bother? Perhaps the philosophy of get is to just throw away that what is not needed.
Thanks!
