Get raw URL from Microsoft.AspNet.Http.HttpRequest

Question

The HttpRequest class in Asp.Net 5 (vNext) contains (amongst other things) parsed details about the URL for the request, such as Scheme, Host

Answer 1

The other solutions did not fit well my needs because I wanted directly an URI object and I think it is better to avoid string concatenation (also) in this case so I created this extension methods than use a UriBuilder and works also with urls like http://localhost:2050:

public static Uri GetUri(this HttpRequest request)
{
    var uriBuilder = new UriBuilder
    {
        Scheme = request.Scheme,
        Host = request.Host.Host,
        Port = request.Host.Port.GetValueOrDefault(80),
        Path = request.Path.ToString(),
        Query = request.QueryString.ToString()
    };
    return uriBuilder.Uri;
}