System.Uri doesn’t allow embedded escaped slashes

re: System.Uri doesn’t allow embedded escaped slashes

Xiang Fan — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:20:06 GMT

Charles, 'SetValue' needs reflection permission (msdn.microsoft.com/.../6z33zd7h.aspx) and you normally don't have such permission under Silverlight or Windows Phone. So unfortunately this hack doesn't work for those platforms.

re: System.Uri doesn’t allow embedded escaped slashes

Charles Dupuis — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:30:30 GMT

This does not work on Windows Phone -> FieldAccessException

re: System.Uri doesn’t allow embedded escaped slashes

Xiang Fan — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:24:25 GMT

My concerns,

1. If the code is in a component, it may or may not work depending on whether the executing assembly has the correct config file.

2. The escaped slash does expose security issue, so I don't want to enable the parser flag on all Uri objects with the same url scheme (It may be better to throw exception instead of silently alter the url).

In my opinion, config file is more suitable for settings like assembly binding, etc.

re: System.Uri doesn’t allow embedded escaped slashes

Richard Deeming — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:16:34 GMT

You'll need to add the settings to the configuration file for your application - either YourAppName.exe.config or web.config - and it will affect all Uri parsing in the application.

re: System.Uri doesn’t allow embedded escaped slashes

Xiang Fan — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:46:08 GMT

Thanks!

Does it work for component? My understanding is that the config file works for exe files.

re: System.Uri doesn’t allow embedded escaped slashes

Richard Deeming — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:30:10 GMT

With .NET 4.0, you can change this setting in the config file:

msdn.microsoft.com/.../bb882619.aspx

msdn.microsoft.com/.../ee656539.aspx

<uri>

</schemeSettings>

</uri>

</configuration>