ASP.Net: HTTP 400 Bad Request error when trying to process http://localhost:5957/http://yahoo.com

Question

I\'m trying to create something similar to the diggbar.

I\'m using Visual Studio 2010 and Asp Development server.

However, I can\'t get the ASP dev server

Answer 1

I answered a similar question here.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/12037000/134761

Basically, ASP.net only accepts encoded characters such as colon after the question mark. Fortunately ASP.net MVC automatically maps both /api/persons/xxxx and /api/persons?id=xxxx equally in the default mapping, so that is what I ended up doing.