Question

I’m trying pass in a url as a paramter to my controller like this:

//Passed in via url like this:  //http://www.mydomain.com/Puzzle/ContinuePuzzle/{insert url here} public ActionResult ContinuePuzzle(string url) {     return View('PuzzleWrapper',                   (object)_PuzzleService.ContinuePuzzle(url); } 

Whenever I try this I get a http 400 Bad Request error. I’ve tried UrlEncoding it, but it still doesn’t like it. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I have a suspicion having two scheme declarations in the URL is causing the default route handler to throw the 400 response.

As a work around, I would just send the URL without the scheme (i.e. http://). I tested this scenario without any problems:

http://www.mydomain.com/Puzzle/ContinuePuzzle/www.domain.com/nextpuzzle

Using this route:

routes.MapRoute('Puzzle', 'Puzzle/ContinuePuzzle/{*url}', new {controller = 'Puzzle', action = 'ContinuePuzzle', url = ''}); 

If you have to have the scheme, then use a querystring parameter like Charlino suggested.