Question

Anyone have an idea offhand regarding why a link with an “@” in it works on my browser, but when I go to get this particular link in my HttpWebRequest code I get a 405 error?

The remote server returned an error:
(405) Method Not Allowed.

The example link in question:

http://internal_link/@api/deki/site/logo.png

thanks

Answer 1

The @ sign is a reserved character in a URL.

reserved    = ";" | "/" | "?" | ":" | "@" | "&" | "=" | "+" |
              "$" | ","

(See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt)

So I’d suggest to escape (something the browser does automatically), using %40 instead of @.