Period Dropped from End of PathAndQuery

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I am writing a web application to look up information about year, make, and model of cars. I want to detect if the URL passed to the server is

http://server.com/Vehicles/2004/Honda/Civic DX 2 and 4 Dr.

(I am not putting the '%20' in the above because we can understand that the URL will be properly encoded/decoded and we don't need to belabor that)

So, in the Global.asax.cs file, I get the value of Request.Url.PathAndQuery to determine whether a URL like this is passed. Only thing is, when I pass this URL to the server and I Thing is, not all car models end with a period, so I cannot know a priori which ones have periods and which do not.

Is this normal for Request.Url.PathAndQuery to drop the ending '.' on the end of a URL? If so, is there another property of Request that I can access in order to get the whole URL, period and all?

Posted 27-Oct-11 7:16am

Brian C Hart86.6K

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fjdiewornncalwe · Answer 1 · 2011-10-27T07:23:00

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I'm guessing that the PathAndQuery is assuming that the "Civic DX 2 and 4 Dr." part is a filename. In this case it is dropping the period because it wouldn't be considered part of the filename, but rather the extension.

Posted 27-Oct-11 7:23am

fjdiewornncalwe

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Brian C Hart 27-Oct-11 13:27pm

I sort of kind of suspected that, but I guess what I am still asking is, then, is there another property of "Request" that I can use to get the raw, un altered URL that the user has typed in the browser bar, without any alterations?

fjdiewornncalwe 27-Oct-11 13:41pm

Not sure if this will work for sure, but I have used it in the past. Try the Request.Url.Segments object. It is a simple string array comprising the array elements. Look at the last item in the array and see if it gives you the period maybe.