Question

I need to fetch the domain name and path from the request to provide the following return values:

domain1.com/default.aspx    returns      domain1.com/default.aspx
domain1.com/                returns      domain1.com/
domain1.com                 returns      domain1.com

At the moment every URL fetch function I try seems to return domain.com/default.aspx no matter what the address bar in my browser says. Any solution to this?

I’ve tried lots of different built-in functions to retrieve parts of the request but none seem to provide the desired results.

Answer 1

There is a solution to your problem.

HttpContext.Current.Request.Urlwill return a Uri object that contains all the parts of the URL broken down for you. From that, you should be able to get what you’re looking for. Specifically, the property you want is Uri.Authority.

EDIT: Try something like this:

    public static string GetPath(this HttpRequest request)
    {
        var authority = request.Url.Authority;
        var pathAndQuery = request.Url.PathAndQuery;
        var query = request.Url.Query;
        var path = pathAndQuery.Substring(0, 
                       pathAndQuery.Length - query.Length));

        if (!authority.EndsWith("/"))
            authority += "/";

        return authority + path;
    }