.Net MVC - Restful URL's - The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters.

Question

Hello,

im creating a MVC application thats following a restfull URL approach

Im am experiencing the following error...

"The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the directory name must be less than 248 characters."

This error occurs when my URL length >= 225 chars. Surly I can have much longer URL's without this problem and doesn’t this relate to file paths rather than URL's ?

Im sure some of you MVC guys have experienced this ;)

is there a way round it ?? where am i going wrong ??

thank you for your time

Truegilly

Answer 1

Apparently there is a problem with aspnet_isapi.dll as indicated at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/265251/asp-net-url-max-path-limit/265943#265943. Fortunately, it appears that it will be addressed in a future version of .NET.

Answer 2

looks like this is a known issue, as soon i i lost some of the / in my URL it worked - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1185739/asp-net-mvc-url-routing-maximum-path-url-length