Howto allow "Illegal characters in path" ?
- by hbruce
I have a MVC.NET application with one route as follows:
routes.MapRoute("member", "member/{id}/{*name}", new { controller = "member", action = "Details", id = "" }, new { id = @"\d+" });
Thus, a link could be something like this: http://domain/member/123/any_kind_of_username
This works fine in general but if the path contains illegal characters (e.g. a double qoute: http://domain/member/123/my_"user"_name) I get a "System.ArgumentException: Illegal characters in path."
After much googling the best suggestions seems to be to make sure that the url doesn't contain any such characters. Unfortunately, that is out of my control in this case.
Is there a way to work around this?
