ASP.NET MVC Routing vs. Reserved Filenames in Windows

Question

In our ASP.NET MVC application, we\'ve noticed that we cannot have The Forbidden DOS File Names—COM1 through COM9, LPT1 through

Answer 1

This has been addressed in ASP.NET 4. http://haacked.com/archive/2010/04/29/allowing-reserved-filenames-in-URLs.aspx

You can apply a setting in web.config that relaxes this restriction.

Hope that helps.