How to resolve url with non-ancestor references

Question

Hi,

I have urls with references to folders that are not direct ancestors of the page pointed to - like these below:

    http://www.mysite.com/home/../help/helppage.aspx

    http://www.mysite.com/contact/../help/helppage.aspx

    http://www.mysite.com/accounts/performing-accounts/../../help/helppage.aspx

I'd like to be able to unambiguously resolve these to

http://www.mysite.com/help/helppage.aspx.

How do I do this in C#?

Answer 1

Use the System.Uri class

Uri uri = new Uri(url);
string absolutePath = uri.AbsolutePath;

Answer 2

Uri uri = new Uri("http://www.mysite.com/home/../help/helppage.aspx");
uri.AbsoluteUri; // <- Contains http://www.mysite.com/help/helppage.aspx