I have a ASP.NET MVC controller which is making call to another service using HttpClient class.
var url = "some url";
var client = new HttpClient();
var result= client.GetAsync(url);
The URL I am sending contains some special characters. How can encode special characters in ASP.NET MVC controller?
Thanks!!1
Try this:
url = HttpUtility.UrlEncode(url);
As you are considering a URL that will be used as such for a request (with HttpClient.getAsync) -- not as an argument within another URL -- you should use Uri.EscapeUriString.
Here is a comparison of three methods for the following URL:
var url = "http://some url?data=x y+z&user=1#ok";
Console.WriteLine(HttpUtility.UrlEncode(url));
http%3a%2f%2fsome+url%3fdata%3dx+y%2bz%26user%3d1%23ok
Obviously, this is not desired: the URL got damaged with / escaped, a + entered in the path, ...etc. The method seems useful for the query part of the URL, but not for the whole lot.
Console.WriteLine(HttpUtility.UrlPathEncode(url));
http://some%20url?data=x y+z&user=1#ok
This looks useful, although the space is a bit of a problem in the query part (notice the broken hyperlinking here, although browser can deal with it). But more importantly, the method is being deprecated:
Do not use; intended only for browser compatibility. Use
UrlEncode.
Console.WriteLine(Uri.EscapeUriString(url));
This seems to do the job well: %20 is an escape sequence that all modern browsers should support, also when occurring in the query part of the URL.
There is no need it encoding in Razor View Engine starting from 3rd version, and it's very convenient. Instead if you want to use tags you should use:
@Html.Raw(myString)
So basically just using Razor comes with encoding by default.
HttpUtility.HtmlEncode instead of UrlEncode, because it suits server.htmlencode better. Just add proper reference to project.You should use HttpUtility.UrlPathEncode
When you use url = HttpUtility.UrlEncode(url) it doesn't work fine with spaces.
