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Querystring as part of url

I have a url with querystring http://www.sample.com?q=asdasdsdasd . Will it be possible to modify the querystring so that I could replace it with /myaccount i.e at the end the url will look like http://www.sample.com/myaccount.

string destUrl = string.Format("{0}://{1}{2}/",Request.Url.Scheme,Request.Url.Authority,Request.Url.AbsolutePath);
if (destUrl.EndsWith("/"))
destUrl = destUrl.TrimEnd(new char[] { '/' });
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Request.QueryString["paramName"])) {
destUrl = string.Format("{0}?paramName={1}", destUrl, "paramValueHere");
Response.Redirect(destUrl);

Check out url rewriting. You may not be able to achieve the /myaccount direct, but you can tidy up your urls, make them more readable and meaningful for SEO.
You will be able to use to allow your url to look similar to the following :
www.sample.com/account/asdaasdasd
If you lose the query string all together you won't be able to access it at all. Unless you implemented some form of interim code that will get the query string, store it in a session and then redirect to your /myaccount url and get it back there.

I think you are referring to URL Rewriting.
This is quite a commonly used blog post regarding URL rewriting:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/02/26/tip-trick-url-rewriting-with-asp-net.aspx
Or if you have IIS7, its now been made easier:
http://www.iis.net/download/urlrewrite
In terms of changing ?q=asdasdsdasd to /myaccount though, I don't understand. The first URL seems like a typical search query, and the second is a URL which would probably use cookies etc to pick up the variables (as its for a user account?).
But URL Rewriting can be used so that if you have a user profile with a URL like:
www.sample.com?userprofile.aspx?user=johnsmith
This can be rewritten, using the johnsmith part as a variable like:
www.sample.com/user/johnsmith

With simple string manipulation you could do it as:
string urlWithQuerystring = "http://www.sample.com?q=asdasdsdasd";
int queryStringPos = urlWithQuerystring.IndexOf("?");
string newUrl = String.Format("{0}/myaccount/", urlWithQuerystring.Substring(0, queryStringPos));

Use the this Code in your Global.asax:
void Application_BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string[] parts = Request.RawUrl.Split(new char[]{'/'});
if(Part[1] == "myaccount"))
Context.RewritePath("http://www.sample.com?q=" + Part[2]);
}
and then use this address
http://www.sample.com/myaccount/asdasdasd

IIS treats double-encoded forward slashes in URLs differently on the first request than it does on subsequent requests

Recently my team was asked to implement an HttpModule for an ASP.NET MVC application that handled double-encoded URLs on IIS 7 and .NET 3.5. Here's the crux of the problem:
We sometimes get URLs that have double-encoded forward slashes that look like so:
http://www.example.com/%252fbar%5cbaz/foo
There are other formats that we have to handle as well, but they all have something in common, they have a double-encoded forward slash.
To fix this, we wrote an HttpModule that only acts when a URL has a double encoded forward slash, and we redirect it to a sane URL. The details aren't important, but there are two bits that are:
We can't control the fact that these URLs have double-encoded forward slashes
And we have not ugpraded to .NET 4.0 yet, nor is it on the immediate horizon.
Here's the problem:
The first request after IIS starts up shows a different URL than the second request does.
If we used the URL from the above example, the first request to IIS would look like:
http://www.example.com/bar/baz/foo
and the second request would look like:
http://www.example.com/%252fbar%5cbaz/foo
This was done by inspecting the Application.Request.Url.AbsolutePath property while debugging.
Here's the smallest code example that should reproduce the problem (create a new MVC application, and register the following HttpModule):
public class ForwardSlashHttpModule : IHttpModule
{
internal IHttpApplication Application { get; set; }
public void Dispose()
{
Application = null;
}
public void Init(HttpApplication context)
{
Initialize(new HttpApplicationAdapter(context));
}
internal void Initialize(IHttpApplication context)
{
Application = context;
context.BeginRequest += context_BeginRequest;
}
internal void context_BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var url = Application.Request.Url.AbsolutePath; //<-- Problem point
//Do stuff with Url here.
}
}
Then, call the same URL on localhost:
http://www.example.com/%252fbar%5c/foo
NB: Make sure to insert a Debugger.Launch() call before the line in context_BeginRequest so that you'll be able to see it the first time IIS launches
When you execute the first request, you should see:
http://example.com/bar/foo
on subsequent requests, you should see:
http://example.com//bar/foo.
My question is: Is this a bug in IIS? Why does it provide different URLs when calling Application.Request.Url.AbsolutePath the first time, but not for any subsequent request?
Also: It doesn't matter whether the first request is for a double encoded URL or not, the second request will always be handled appropriately by IIS (or at least, as appropriate as handling double-encoded forward slashes can be). It's that very first request that is the problem.
Update
I tried a few different properties to see if one had different values on the first request:
First Request
string u = Application.Request.Url.AbsoluteUri;
"http://example.com/foo/baz/bar/"
string x = Application.Request.Url.OriginalString;
"http://example.com:80/foo/baz/bar"
string y = Application.Request.RawUrl;
"/%2ffo/baz/bar"
bool z = Application.Request.Url.IsWellFormedOriginalString();
true
The only interesting thing is that the Application.Request.RawUrl emits a single-encoded Forward slash (%2f), and translates the encoded backslash (%5c) to a forwardslash (although everything else does that as well).
The RawUrl is still partially encoded on the first request.
Second Request
string u = Application.Request.Url.AbsoluteUri;
"http://example.com//foo/baz/bar"
string x = Application.Request.Url.OriginalString;
"http://example.com:80/%2ffoo/baz/bar"
string y = Application.Request.RawUrl;
"/%2ffoo/baz/bar"
bool z = Application.Request.Url.IsWellFormedOriginalString();
false
Interesting points from the second request:
IsWellFormedOriginalString() is false. On the first request it was true.
The RawUrl is the same (potentially helpful).
The AbsoluteUri is different. On the second request, it has two forward slashes.
Update
Application.Request.ServerVariables["URL"] = /quotes/gc/v12/CMX
Application.Request.ServerVariables["CACHE_URL"] = http://example.com:80/%2ffoo/baz/bar
Open Questions
This seems like a bug in either IIS or .NET. Is it?
This only matters for the very first request made by an application after an iisreset
Besides using RawUrl (as we'd have to worry about a lot of other problems if we parsed the Raw Url instead of using the 'safe' URL provided by .NET), what other methods are there for us to handle this?
Keep in mind, the physical impact of this problem is low: For it to be an actual problem, the first request to the web server from a client would have to be for the above specific URL, and the chances of that happening are relatively low.

Request.Url can be decoded already - I wouldn't trust it for what you are doing.
See the internal details at:
Querystring with url-encoded ampersand prematurely decoded within Request.Url
The solution is to access the values directly via Request.RawUrl.
I realize your prob is with the path, but it seems the same thing is going on. Try the RawUrl - see if it works for you instead.

This really isn't an answer, but possibly a step in the right direction. I haven't had time to create a test harness to prove anything.
I followed this.PrivateAbsolutePath through Reflector and it goes on and on. There is a lot of string manipulation when it's accessed.
public string AbsolutePath
{
get
{
if (this.IsNotAbsoluteUri)
{
throw new InvalidOperationException(SR.GetString("net_uri_NotAbsolute"));
}
string privateAbsolutePath = this.PrivateAbsolutePath; //HERE
if (this.IsDosPath && (privateAbsolutePath[0] == '/'))
{
privateAbsolutePath = privateAbsolutePath.Substring(1);
}
return privateAbsolutePath;
}
}

How can I get previous page url when i used location.href?

I have used location.href to redirect next page, but now i want to back to this page, how can I do?
in my case, i cannot use Request.UrlReferrer.PathAndQuery, so any suggestion?

Since you are using location.href to change the URL, your browser is going to kick off a new request/response cycle. Thus to your server, there is no referrer - this is a whole new request.
The most direct approach to solve your problem would be to add a referrer-url parameter to your new URL, which you can then pick up on the server side.
eg:
control.location.href = "newpage.aspx?referrer-url=thispage.aspx";
and on the server:
string referrerUrl = Request["referrer-url"];

If the previous URL is one that you own/can predict (e.g. the user came from page A or page B), you could use a trick like this one: http://www.merchantos.com/blog/makebeta/tools/spyjax

Redirect to url based on user data

When someone logs on to my site. I want to direct them to their own home page. If the user has the id of 1. They would go to
http://www.test.com/Home.aspx?id=1
I already have the login and id setup. I am not sure how to incorporate it into the url.

Response.Redirect("http://www.test.com/Home.aspx?id=" + id);

Are you using Forms Authentication?
If so, instead of using RedirectFromLoginPage (which will redirect to whatever page is in your web.config), just use FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie, and do your own redirection.
To do so, you need to make use of the URL QueryString.
E.g
// forms auth code here, user is logged in.
int id = 1;
string redirectUrlFormat = "http://www.test.com/Home.aspx{0}";
string queryStringidFormat = "?id={0}";
Response.Redirect(string.Format(redirectUrlFormat, string.Format(queryStringidFormat, id)));
You should handle all querystring parameters, URL, etc (ie the above code) in a global static model class.
That way you can just say:
Response.Redirect(SomeStaticClass.GetUserHomePageUrl(id));
In the receiving page (Home.aspx), use the following code to get the id of the user:
var userId = Request.QueryString["id"]; // again, this "magic string" should be in a static class.
Hope that helps.

Truncating Query String & Returning Clean URL C# ASP.net

I would like to take the original URL, truncate the query string parameters, and return a cleaned up version of the URL. I would like it to occur across the whole application, so performing through the global.asax would be ideal. Also, I think a 301 redirect would be in order as well.
ie.
in: www.website.com/default.aspx?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social-media
out: www.website.com/default.aspx
What would be the best way to achieve this?

System.Uri is your friend here. This has many helpful utilities on it, but the one you want is GetLeftPart:
string url = "http://www.website.com/default.aspx?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social-media";
Uri uri = new Uri(url);
Console.WriteLine(uri.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Path));
This gives the output: http://www.website.com/default.aspx
[The Uri class does require the protocol, http://, to be specified]
GetLeftPart basicallys says "get the left part of the uri up to and including the part I specify". This can be Scheme (just the http:// bit), Authority (the www.website.com part), Path (the /default.aspx) or Query (the querystring).
Assuming you are on an aspx web page, you can then use Response.Redirect(newUrl) to redirect the caller.

Here is a simple trick
Dim uri = New Uri(Request.Url.AbsoluteUri)
dim reqURL = uri.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Path)

Here is a quick way of getting the root path sans the full path and query.
string path = Request.Url.AbsoluteUri.Replace(Request.Url.PathAndQuery,"");

This may look a little better.
string rawUrl = String.Concat(this.GetApplicationUrl(), Request.RawUrl);
if (rawUrl.Contains("/post/"))
{
bool hasQueryStrings = Request.QueryString.Keys.Count > 1;
if (hasQueryStrings)
{
Uri uri = new Uri(rawUrl);
rawUrl = uri.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Path);
HtmlLink canonical = new HtmlLink();
canonical.Href = rawUrl;
canonical.Attributes["rel"] = "canonical";
Page.Header.Controls.Add(canonical);
}
}
Followed by a function to properly fetch the application URL.
Works perfectly.

I'm guessing that you want to do this because you want your users to see pretty looking URLs. The only way to get the client to "change" the URL in its address bar is to send it to a new location - i.e. you need to redirect them.
Are the query string parameters going to affect the output of your page? If so, you'll have to look at how to maintain state between requests (session variables, cookies, etc.) because your query string parameters will be lost as soon as you redirect to a page without them.
There are a few ways you can do this globally (in order of preference):
If you have direct control over your server environment then a configurable server module like ISAPI_ReWrite or IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module is a great approach.
A custom IHttpModule is a nice, reusable roll-your-own approach.
You can also do this in the global.asax as you suggest
You should only use the 301 response code if the resource has indeed moved permanently. Again, this depends on whether your application needs to use the query string parameters. If you use a permanent redirect a browser (that respects the 301 response code) will skip loading a URL like .../default.aspx?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social-media and load .../default.aspx - you'll never even know about the query string parameters.
Finally, you can use POST method requests. This gives you clean URLs and lets you pass parameters in, but will only work with <form> elements or requests you create using JavaScript.

Take a look at the UriBuilder class. You can create one with a url string, and the object will then parse this url and let you access just the elements you desire.

After completing whatever processing you need to do on the query string, just split the url on the question mark:
Dim _CleanUrl as String = Request.Url.AbsoluteUri.Split("?")(0)
Response.Redirect(_CleanUrl)
Granted, my solution is in VB.NET, but I'd imagine that it could be ported over pretty easily. And since we are only looking for the first element of the split, it even "fails" gracefully when there is no querystring.