Space in routing gives 404

Question

Hi there.

I currently have this route defined (among others): "{controller}/{action}/{id}/{designation}" being:

• "id" my primary key
• "designation" only used for SEO and not taken into account.

now my problem is: "http://server/Home/Index/1/teste" works but "http://server/Home/Index/1/teste " with a space in the end doesn't.

IIS is giving me a 404 and mvc is not even starting for this request.

Anyone experienced this behavior? Anything I need to change?

With best regards

Answer 1

Space is an invalid character in URL's. The browser should not even send it.

If you're calling this in code, try using HttpUtility.UrlEncode( path ) before sending / redirecting.

Answer 2

Space cannot be used as a plain text character in a url. You have to encode it as:

%20

E.g.

http://www.testDomain.com/test%20page