Question

I have an article based website where users can login, post articles etc.

The url I am using for a registered user looks as follows (only example):

http://example.com/Author/1234/Screenname

Like you can see, I am passing through the ID (1234) and using the users screen name.

The Problem

Passing the ID is 100% fine, but once a user has a special character or anything that is not A-Z, it will return a 404 or a Bad Request page.

Problematic URL

See /Screen.name – I want to replace special characters, coz it will cause a Http error.

http://example.com/Author/1234/Screenname.

I want to use the Intelligencia UrlRewriter in the web.config (or any other global solution, e.g. global.asa) to replace special invalid url characters.

My current web.config rewriter code:

<rewrite url="^~/Author/(.+)/(.+)" to="~/Contributor_Profile.aspx?auID=$1&amp;auN=$2" processing="stop" permanent="true"/>

Answer 1

Try this in your web.config

<httpRuntime relaxedUrlToFileSystemMapping="true" />