Question

ASP.NET MVC 2 Issue – Dot in Route gives an example to allow dot (.) in url and allow .svc file.

My question is, how to allow any kind of file, I tried:

<httpRuntime relaxedUrlToFileSystemMapping="true" />
<remove extension=".*"/>

Not working! What I want is: for any kind of URL (any chars) can processed by MVC3 Route(MapRoute).

Answer 1

here is the solution:

First: it will NOT cause security leak, if you visit /web.config, you will get

HTTP Error 404.8 - Not Found
The request filtering module is configured to deny a path in the URL that contains a hiddenSegment section.

Unless you change the hiddenSegment of course.

here is the solution, at web.config file:

<system.webServer>
    <handlers>
        <add name="Static-Favicon" path="favicon.ico" verb="GET" modules="StaticFileModule" resourceType="File" requireAccess="Read" />
        <add name="Static-Robot" path="robots.txt" verb="GET" modules="StaticFileModule" resourceType="File" requireAccess="Read" />
        <add name="ExtensionlessUrlHandler-ISAPI-4.0_32bit" path="*" verb="GET,HEAD,POST,DEBUG" modules="IsapiModule" scriptProcessor="%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_isapi.dll" preCondition="classicMode,runtimeVersionv4.0,bitness32" responseBufferLimit="0" />
        <add name="ExtensionlessUrlHandler-ISAPI-4.0_64bit" path="*" verb="GET,HEAD,POST,DEBUG" modules="IsapiModule" scriptProcessor="%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_isapi.dll" preCondition="classicMode,runtimeVersionv4.0,bitness64" responseBufferLimit="0" />
        <add name="ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4.0" path="*" verb="GET,HEAD,POST,DEBUG" type="System.Web.Handlers.TransferRequestHandler" preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0" />
    </handlers>
</system.webServer>

Static-Favicon and Static-Robot can be removed, if you like your MVC handle these two files as well.

Btw, you still need the <remove extension=".svc" /> to handle svc file, and relaxedUrlToFileSystemMapping for special codes in url