Include url inside url

Question

I want to use the following format of my url:

http://localhost/{url}/{options}/{hash}

But since the url will be very strange with a url inside a url, how would I encode that?

I was thinking of encoding it in hex, since url encoding in .net gave me some strange result that didn't work inside a url. But I don't really know what would be the best way here.

I want to keep the structure of the url, not including any querystring.

Answer 1

You can use System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode method to encode parts of the url (even another url).

If it's a part of the path and not the query string, UrlPathEncode should do the job.

Answer 2

If you don't want the querystring part, then why do you want to encode the url part?

The following url is completely valid:

http://localhost/www.stackoverflow.com/1234/abc

As stated in this RFC, characters, "-" and "." are allowed in a URI.