ASP.NET MVC Route IDs with a period

Question

If I have a route with the following:

{controller}/{action}/{id}

I look at the following URL:

c1/a1/abc.

It doesn't work. This only happens when the period is at the end of the URL. Any way to get ASP.NET MVC to recognize that as part of the ID?

score 11 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 17 '14 at 20:50

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If you are using .NET 4.0, you can set this flag in your web.config and it will be allowed:

<system.web>
    ...
    <httpRuntime relaxedUrlToFileSystemMapping="true" />
    ...
</system.web>

I've tested it and it works. Haack has an explanation of it.

edited Sep 17 '14 at 20:50

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answered Aug 22 '10 at 17:35

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Phew, that was a real lifer saver! – Niklas Jun 18 '13 at 08:58
This was the only method I found to work on MVC4 – user1534664 Aug 31 '13 at 11:36
Thank you. I tried 5 different answers that I found on SO. This was the only technique I found that worked. – David Burela Oct 23 '13 at 13:59
Doesn't make a difference. – Peter Moore May 13 '20 at 22:14

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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Reading through the answers to the two similar problems below, I only can suggest that you encode the period before passing it to you MVC application. It looks as the period is also treated as a delimter to a rule succh as "/".

ASP.NET MVC Route IDs with a period

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