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Asked: 2026-05-11T14:07:20+00:00

I am retro-fitting an application to make use of a PHP HTTP proxy (for

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I am retro-fitting an application to make use of a PHP HTTP proxy (for caching) instead of the actual API server, the application currently combines the server URI and the path with the code:

methodUri = new Uri(apiUri, method.Path)

Where:

The result of the above statement is

'http://api.eve-online.com/char/SkillIntraining.xml.aspx' (System.Uri Object)

To use the PHP HTTP proxy the request would have to be changed as follows

The output I was expecting was:

'http://www.r-s.co.uk/eproxy.php/char/SkillIntraining.xml.aspx' (System.Uri Object)

However the output I get is:

'http://www.r-s.co.uk/char/SkillIntraining.xml.aspx' (System.Uri Object)

I understand that this is the correct functionality of the constructor Uri(Uri, string), my question is what would be a better function or constructor to use in its place to get the output I expect? I have tried removing the leading ‘/’ in method.Path taking it from an absolute path to a relative path however that did not help.

NOTE: both solutions below do work, however System.UriBuilder provides a more robust mechanism for combining URI’s and paths and in my case resulted in fewer changes to resources than using System.Uri. Had I the choice I would mark both answers as correct.

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  1. Don’t use the Uri object, use a UriBuilder – it copes way better with missing slashes

    So

    Uri apiUri = new Uri('http://www.r-s.co.uk/eproxy.php'); string methodPath = '/char/SkillIntraining.xml.aspx';  System.UriBuilder uriBuilder = new System.UriBuilder(apiUri); uriBuilder.Path += methodPath;  Console.WriteLine(uriBuilder.Uri.ToString());

    works as expected and produces http://www.r-s.co.uk/eproxy.php/char/SkillIntraining.xml.aspx

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