Question

I have an annoying problem with routes in asp.net mvc. I’ve created a custom route handler to handle XMLRPC calls to my site and I want to route this to /xmlrpc/pingback.

In global.asax.cs I have this:

routes.MapRoute(
            "Default", 
            "{controller}/{action}/{id}", 
            new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
        );

routes.Add(new Route("xmlrpc/pingback", null,
            new RouteValueDictionary(),
            new PingbackRouteHandler()));

Now the xmlrpc/pingback isn’t found, because there is no controller called xmlrpc.

If I switch the order to the xmlrpc routes comes first the xmlrpc works, but every other /controller/action routes is mapped to /xmlrpc/pingback?controller=home&action=index.

How can I create a constraint that matches every controller name except “xmlrpc”? Or is there another way of doing this?

// Joan

Answer 1

You could add controller = "Fake" to the Pingback route’s defaults to prevent it from matching other routes.