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I have an ApiController and I want to use email addresses as the ID parameter for requests:
// GET api/employees/[email protected] public CompactEmployee Get(string id) { var email = id; return GetEmployeeByEmail(email); } However, I cannot get this to work (returns 404):
http://localhost:1080/api/employees/[email protected]
The following all work:
http://localhost:1080/api/employees/employee@companyhttp://localhost:1080/api/employees/employee@company.http://localhost:1080/api/[email protected]I have set relaxedUrlToFileSystemMapping="true" in my web.config as detailed by Phil Haack.
I would very much love the full email address to work, but any time the period is followed by any other character, the request returns a 404. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Due to a lack of other options, I've headed in the direction Maggie suggested and used the answer from this question to create a rewrite rule to automatically append a trailing slash when I need an email in the URL.
<system.webServer> .... <rewrite> <rules> <rule name="Add trailing slash" stopProcessing="true"> <match url="^(api/employees/.*\.[a-z]{2,4})$" /> <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:1}/" /> </rule> </rules> </rewrite> </system.webServer> 
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A simple solution is to check for the HTTP status code 404 in the response. If found, you can redirect the control to a page that exists. The following code snippet illustrates how you can write the necessary code in the Configure method of the Startup class to redirect to the home page if a 404 error has occurred.
You can return one or the other, not both. Frankly, a WebAPI controller returns nothing but data, never a view page. A MVC controller returns view pages.
Web API Controller is similar to ASP.NET MVC controller. It handles incoming HTTP requests and send response back to the caller. Web API controller is a class which can be created under the Controllers folder or any other folder under your project's root folder.
The IHttpActionResult interface was introduced in Web API 2. Essentially, it defines an HttpResponseMessage factory. Here are some advantages of using the IHttpActionResult interface: Simplifies unit testing your controllers. Moves common logic for creating HTTP responses into separate classes.
Would adding a trailing slash work for your scenario?
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