Question

I am using WCF / .NET 4.0 / IIS7.5 / Sever 2008

I want to do this:

http://localhost/users/email/[e-mail]

But, it shows up on the server like this:

“bill”

The “@microsoft” gets removed.

I understand that the at symbol is a special case.
Is there a graceful way to do this? Can I instruct
my WebGet method that this method is going to take
a special symbol and please encode it?

    [WebGet(UriTemplate = "/email/{email}")]
    [WebDispatchFormatter]
    [OperationContract]
    UserDto GetUserByEmail(string email);

How do I manipulate email addresses using WCF REST?

Thanks.

Answer 1

When you use special characters in a URI, you have to URI Encode them and then decode on the service side. Since this is .NET, you can utilize the encode/decode bits for URL encoding.