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.

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Answer 1

Totally agree with @bobince, the problem is in the wrong encoding to %2b instead of %20

Sadly HttpUtility.UrlEncode is misleadingly-named. It produces + in its output instead of %20, so it's really a form-URL-encoder and not a standard URL-encoder. Unfortunately I don't know of an ASP.NET function to “really URL-encode” strings for use in a path, so all I can recommend is doing a string replace of + to %20 after encoding.

this is the important part, which is to replace the + sign with %20