I'm trying to do some work with fakemailgenerator, the url goes well with httpwebrequest and gets printed by MessageBox.Show properly, here is the piece of code with the problem, btw there no errors or exeptions.
//FOR EXAMPLE mail#fakemail.com
string[] mailSplit = mail.Split(new string[] { "#" },
StringSplitOptions.None); // MAKING AN ARRAY TO SPLIT USER
AND DOMAIN
string url = #"http://www.fakemailgenerator.com/#/" +
mailSplit[1] + "/" + mailSplit[0] + "/"; //GENERATING AND SAVING THE FAKE MAIL URL.
MessageBox.Show(url); //THIS PRINTS http://www.fakemailgenerator.com/#/fakemail.com/mail
Process.Start("chrome", url); //THIS GOES TO http://www.fakemailgenerator.com/#/fakemail.com
EDIT
This have nothing to do with fakemailgenerator.com, because as mentioned above i tried that with httpwebrequest, plus in the loading state it's just http://www.fakemailgenerator.com/#/fakemail.com and not the full url.
EDIT
I tried rightnow putting the url manually and it went good and have been opened in chrome successfully, and i have observed one problem with the url when printed with MessageBox.Show (while using variables, not setting url manually), is showing url like http://www.fakemailgenerator.com/#/domain.com /userwith a whitespace between .com and /user, so i've tried replacing the white space with \0 (null) using url.Replace(' ','\0'), but this failed, so i think maybe there is a way to remove the white space?
Ran the code and it worked fine. A new Chrome window opened with the correct (full) url. It's an error page for me though, but if the site really exists when you try to reach it, perhaps there is some kind of a redirect that redirects you to a site with the shorter url.
I've figured around the problem, i don't really know where it's coming from, but all i know is that a whitespace was being added to the url in a way that makes process.Start("chrome",url); receives only the part before the whitespace; http://www.fakemailgenerator.com/#/domain.com/ , so i've just removed the whitespace with url = url.Replace(" ",string.Empty); and now the code works just fine.
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I have the following line of aspx link that I would like to encode:
Response.Redirect("countriesAttractions.aspx?=");
I have tried the following method:
Response.Redirect(Encoder.UrlPathEncode("countriesAttractions.aspx?="));
This is another method that I tried:
var encoded = Uri.EscapeUriString("countriesAttractions.aspx?=");
Response.Redirect(encoded);
Both redirects to the page without the URL being encoded:
http://localhost:52595/countriesAttractions?=
I tried this third method:
Response.Redirect(Server.UrlEncode("countriesAttractions.aspx?="));
This time the url itself gets encoded:
http://localhost:52595/countriesAttractions.aspx%3F%3D
However I get an error from the UI saying:
HTTP Error 404.0 Not Found
The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or
is temporarily unavailable.
Most likely causes:
-The directory or file specified does not exist on the Web server.
-The URL contains a typographical error.
-A custom filter or module, such as URLScan, restricts access to the file.
Also, I would like to encode another kind of URL that involves parsing of session strings:
Response.Redirect("specificServices.aspx?service=" +
Session["service"].ToString().Trim() + "&price=" +
Session["price"].ToString().Trim()));
The method I tried to include the encoding method into the code above:
Response.Redirect(Server.UrlEncode("specificServices.aspx?service=" +
Session["service"].ToString().Trim() + "&price=" +
Session["price"].ToString().Trim()));
The above encoding method I used displayed the same kind of results I received with my previous Server URL encode methods. I am not sure on how I can encode url the correct way without getting errors.
As well as encoding URL with CommandArgument:
Response.Redirect("specificAttractions.aspx?attraction=" +
e.CommandArgument);
I have tried the following encoding:
Response.Redirect("specificAttractions.aspx?attraction=" +
HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(Convert.ToString(e.CommandArgument)));
But it did not work.
Is there any way that I can encode the url without receiving this kind of error?
I would like the output to be something like my second result but I want to see the page itself and not the error page.
I have tried other methods I found on stackoverflow such as self-coded methods but those did not work either.
I am using AntiXSS class library in this case for the methods I tried, so it would be great if I can get solutions using AntiXSS library.
I need to encode URL as part of my school project so it would be great if I can get solutions. Thank you.
You can use the UrlEncode or UrlPathEncode methods from the HttpUtility class to achieve what you need. See documentation at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.httputility.urlencode(v=vs.110).aspx
It's important to understand however, that you should not need to encode the whole URL string. It's only the parameter values - which may contain arbitrary data and characters which aren't valid in a URL - that you need to encode.
To explain this concept, run the following in a simple .NET console application:
string url = "https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=";
//string url = "http://localhost:52595/specificAttractions.aspx?country=";
string parm = "Bora Bora, French Polynesia";
Console.WriteLine(url + parm);
Console.WriteLine(url + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(parm), System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);
Console.WriteLine(url + HttpUtility.UrlPathEncode(parm), System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);
Console.WriteLine(HttpUtility.UrlEncode(url + parm), System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);
You'll get the following output:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Bora Bora, French Polynesia
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Bora+Bora%2c+French+Polynesia
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Bora%20Bora,%20French%20Polynesia
https%3a%2f%2fwww.google.co.uk%2fsearch%3fq%3dBora+Bora%2c+French+Polynesia
By pasting these into a browser and trying to use them, you'll soon see what is a valid URL and what is not.
(N.B. when pasting into modern browsers, many of them will URL-encode automatically for you, if your parameter is not valid - so you'll find the first output works too, but if you tried to call it via some C# code for instance, it would fail.)
Working demo: https://dotnetfiddle.net/gqFsdK
You can of course alter the values you input to anything you like. They can be hard-coded strings, or the result of some other code which returns a string (e.g. fetching from the session, or a database, or a UI element, or anywhere else).
N.B. It's also useful to clarify that a valid URL is simply a string in the correct format of a URL. It is not the same as a URL which actually exists. A URL may be valid but not exist if you try to use it, or may be valid and really exist.
So I tried this in several different formats and produced different results. I will include all relevant information below.
My company uses a web-based application to schedule the generation of reports. The service emails a URL that can be clicked on and will immediately begin the "Open Save As Cancel" dialogue box. I am trying to automate the process of downloading these reports with a C# script as part of a Visual Studio project (the end goal is to import these reports in SQL Server).
I am encountering terrible difficulty initiating the download of this file using WebClient Here is the closest I have gotten with any of the methods I have tried:
*NOTE: I removed all identifying information from the URL, but left all special characters and the basic architecture intact. Hopefully this will be a happy medium between protecting confidential info and giving you enough to understand my dilemma. The URL does work when manually copied and pasted into the address bar of internet explorer.
Error Message:
"Invalid URI: The hostname could not be parsed."
public void Main()
{
using (var wc = new System.Net.WebClient())
{
wc.DownloadFile(
new Uri(#"http:\\webapp.locality.company.com\scripts\rds\cgigetf.exe?job_id=3058352&file_id=1&format=TAB\report.tab"),
#"\\server\directory\folder1\folder2\folder3\...\...\...\rawfile.tab");
}
}
Note also that I have tried to set:
string sourceUri = #"http:\\webapp.locality.company.com\scripts\rds\cgigetf.exe?job_id=3058352&file_id=1&format=TAB\report.tab\abc123_3058352.tab";
Uri uriPath;
Uri.TryCreate(sourceUri, UriKind.Absolute, out uriPath);
But uriPath remains null - TryCreate fails.
I have attempted doing a webrequest / webresponse / WebStream, but it still cannot find the host.
I have tried including the download URL (as in my first code example) and the download URL + the file name (as in my second code example). I do not need the file name in the URL to initiate the download if I do it manually. I have also tried replacing the "report.tab" portion of the URL with the file name, but to no avail.
Help is greatly appreciated as I have simply run out of thoughts on this one. The only idea I have left is that perhaps one of the special characters in my URL is getting in the way, but I don't know which one that would be or how to handle it properly.
Thanks in advance!
My first thought would be that your URI backslashes are being interpreted as escape characters, leading to a nonsense result after evaluation. I would try a quick test where each backslash is escaped as itself (i.e. "\" instead of "\" in each instance). I'm also a little puzzled as to why your URI is not using forward slashes...?
// Create an absolute Uri from a string.
Uri absoluteUri = new Uri("http://www.contoso.com/");
Ref: Uri Constructor on MSDN
I'm using the YQL trick to bypass the crossdomain.xml as explained here here to get card info from http://api.mtgdb.info/ in one of my Unity projects. It works great for cards without spaces in their name, though I get an "error: 400 Bad Request" when there is.
I'm working in C# and I'm using Uri.EscapeUriString() to make sure the url is formatted properly (so spaces become %20).
My code:
string fields = "name,manacost,convertedManaCost";
string bypassedURL = BypassCrosdomain("http://api.mtgdb.info/cards/" + info.Name + "?fields=" + fields, "json"); //info.Name is the card's name, either "ponder" or "aether vial"
var www = new WWW(url); //This is the Unity equivalent of an ajax GET
yield return www;
And the BypassCrossdomain method I made:
string BypassCrosdomain(string url, string format) {
return
"http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20html%20where%20url%3D'" +
Uri.EscapeUriString(url) +
"'%0A&format=" + format;
}
So when I try it with the card "Ponder" I get no error, and the bypassedURL is:
http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20html%20where%20url%3D'http://api.mtgdb.info/cards/ponder?fields=name,manacost,convertedManaCost'%0A&format=json
On the other hand, when I try "Aether Vial" I get the 400 error, and the url is:
http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20html%20where%20url%3D'http://api.mtgdb.info/cards/aether%20vial?fields=name,manacost,convertedManaCost'%0A&format=json
I also tried with several other cards, same result, those without spaces worked, those with didn't.
Any idea why this is, and how to fix it?
Thanks!
You need to double encode your URL string.
This link works:
http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20html%20where%20url%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fapi.mtgdb.info%2Fcards%2Faether%2520vial?fields=name,manacost,convertedManaCost%27%0A&format=json
Notice I changed:
http://api.mtgdb.info/cards/aether%20vial
to
http%3A%2F%2Fapi.mtgdb.info%2Fcards%2Faether%2520vial
Uri.EscapeUriString(Uri.EscapeUriString(url)) should do it.
This should work for your non space names as well.
i use server.transfer at the begining it works perfectly. but then i add another language to my site and i try to do it but it fails with the new language
my code is below
if (Request.RawUrl.Contains("/tr/"))
{
Server.Transfer("tr/" + dt.Rows[0]["SourceURL"].ToString());
}
else if (Request.RawUrl.Contains("/en/"))
{
Server.Transfer("en/" + dt.Rows[0]["SourceURL"].ToString());
}
the "tr" transfers work superb but en fails it stays on my pagenotfound and not transfer to the destination url. i also check to write the whole url like http://mysite.com/en/test.aspx?k=13 and it also works but when server.transfer it fails
can anybody say why?
thanks
I think Response.Redirect will work for in your situation for the website " www.mysite.com/en/home"
It won't be as efficient as Server.Transfer, but should work just as well. I'm not sure why it works with "tr/", but not "en/", this might be due to some issue with relative paths. You could try to include a tilda "~" in front of your URL.
Server.Transfer("~/en/" + dt.Rows[0]["SourceURL"].ToString());
I am getting "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" error while trying to redirect ot another page.
string targetURL = "~/AnotherForm.aspx?Xresult=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(res);
Response.Redirect(targetURL);
Thanks
BB
ResolveURL() which is used by Response.Redirect(), doesn't work nicely with UrlEncode, try this:
string targetURL = "~/AnotherForm.aspx?Xresult=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(res);
Also check this related SO answer: Response.Redirect using ~ Path
You're miscalling HttpUtility.UrlEncode.
You should only Encode the parameter value.
By Encodeing the entire URL, you are escaping the / characters, messing up your URL.