.NET - Get protocol, host, and port

Question

Is there a simple way in .NET to quickly get the current protocol, host, and port? For example, if I'm on the following URL:

http://www.mywebsite.com:80/pages/page1.aspx

I need to return:

http://www.mywebsite.com:80

I know I can use Request.Url.AbsoluteUri to get the complete URL, and I know I can use Request.Url.Authority to get the host and port, but I'm not sure of the best way to get the protocol without parsing out the URL string.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Request.Url will return you the Uri of the request. Once you have that, you can retrieve pretty much anything you want. To get the protocol, call the Scheme property.

Sample:

Uri url = Request.Url;
string protocol = url.Scheme;

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

new Uri("http://www.mywebsite.com:80/pages/page1.aspx").Scheme == "http"

Answer 3

The following (C#) code should do the trick

Uri uri = new Uri("http://www.mywebsite.com:80/pages/page1.aspx");
string requested = uri.Scheme + Uri.SchemeDelimiter + uri.Host + ":" + uri.Port;

Answer 4

Even though @Rick has the accepted answer for this question, there's actually a shorter way to do this, using the poorly named Uri.GetLeftPart() method.

Uri url = new Uri("http://www.mywebsite.com:80/pages/page1.aspx");
string output = url.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Authority);

There is one catch to GetLeftPart(), however. If the port is the default port for the scheme, it will strip it out. Since port 80 is the default port for http, the output of GetLeftPart() in my example above will be http://www.mywebsite.com.

If the port number had been something other than 80, it would be included in the result.