Plus (+) in MVC Argument causes 404 on IIS 7.0

Question

I have an MVC route that is giving me hell on a staging server running IIS. I am running Visual Studio 2010\'s development server locally.

Here is a sample URL that

Answer 1

This is an IIS security setting. There is a standard request filter that rejects URLs containing + (plus) characters.

You can disable it for your web, adding this to your web.config:

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