Question

I’m using ASP.NET MVC 3 and I would like to accept url as parameter for one of the action. But, I’m getting “HTTP Error 400 – Bad Request.” error for the below example. How do I resolve this issue?

Example:

http://localhost:8343/http://google.com

Global.asax.cs:

routes.MapRoute(
                "Default", // Route name
                "{hostUrl}", // URL with parameters
                new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", hostUrl = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
            );

Answer 1

I fixed by following these steps.

• Change Web project properties to “Use IIS Local Server” and check “Use IIS Express”
• Add the following setting in Web.config inside :

<httpRuntime requestPathInvalidCharacters=""/>