WebAPI: ApiController with a URL string / URI parameter

Question

I'd like to have a ApiController that has an action with a URI or URL parameter.

http://testserver/api/Controller?id=http://www.stackoverflow.com

I implemented actions like:

public bool Get(string id)
{
  ...
}

or

public bool Get(Uri id)
{
  ...
}

However: Whenever I call the URL as stated above, I get an 400 - Error - Bad Request.

Darin Dimitrov · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-15 16:14:10Z

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I am unable to reproduce the problem you are describing. This should work. Here are the steps I have tried:

Create a new ASP.NET MVC 4 application using the Empty template

Add an Api controller:

public class ValuesController : ApiController
{
    public HttpResponseMessage Get(Uri id)
    {
        return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK, id);
    }
}

Run the application and navigate to /api/values/?id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stackoverflow.com
The id parameter is correctly bound to the Get action argument

So could you provide the steps allowing us to reproduce the problem?

answered Sep 15, 2012 at 16:14

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Max Over a year ago

Ah! That's a Problem of the "Cassini" Visual Studio Webserver. As soon as I ran it in IIS Express it worked ;-)

theDmi · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-01 06:35:09Z

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The problem seems to be that I used "Cassini", the VS integrated webserver. As soon as I ran it in IIS Express, it worked.

edited Sep 1, 2015 at 6:35

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answered Sep 15, 2012 at 16:42

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