Question

I know if I want to get the current action I can use;

ControllerContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("action")

However what if my route allowed http://mydomain/this has spaces

How would I get “This Has Spaces” rather than “ThisHasSpaces“?

Here is a snippet from my route table

        routes.MapRoute(
            "ThisHasSpaces", // Route name
            "This Has Spaces", // URL with parameters
            new { controller = "Home", action = "ThisHasSpaces", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
        );

Answer 1

If your route looks like that there’s nothing that can give you the original string (other than Request.Uri) since you do not actually map the uri to a route parameter.

Since you hardcode the route you could add another value:

    routes.MapRoute(
        "ThisHasSpaces", // Route name
        "This Has Spaces", // URL with parameters
        new { controller = "Home", action = "ThisHasSpaces", orgstring = "This Has Spaces", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
    );

And fetch it:

ControllerContext.RouteData.Values["orgstring"]