Path.Combine for URLs?

Question

Path.Combine is handy, but is there a similar function in the .NET framework for URLs?

I'm looking for syntax like this:

Url.Combine("http://MyUrl.com/", "/Images/Image.jpg") 

which would return:

"http://MyUrl.com/Images/Image.jpg"

Answer 1

Uri has a constructor that should do this for you: new Uri(Uri baseUri, string relativeUri)

Here's an example:

Uri baseUri = new Uri("http://www.contoso.com"); Uri myUri = new Uri(baseUri, "catalog/shownew.htm"); 

Note from editor: Beware, this method does not work as expected. It can cut part of baseUri in some cases. See comments and other answers.

Answer 2

This may be a suitably simple solution:

public static string Combine(string uri1, string uri2) {     uri1 = uri1.TrimEnd('/');     uri2 = uri2.TrimStart('/');     return string.Format("{0}/{1}", uri1, uri2); }