Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I am getting the error “The return URL specified for request redirection is invalid” when using forms authentication. I found this thread that says this is a known issue with return URLs that contain colons (mine indeed contains a few).
The workaround in that thread is to catch the error and use a default return URL … hardly an acceptable solution. I can try to avoid colons in URLS, but that’s a bit of a pain.
Is there another alternative?
The colon is a reserved character, per the URI RFC. You can’t put an unencoded
:in the query or hash of a URI, period.So you need to %-encode the colon.