ASP.net MVC4 WebApi route with file-name in it

Question

I\'m trying to get the following (and similar) urls to work in my ASP.net MVC4/WebApi project:

http://127.0.0.1:81/api/nav/SpotiFire/SpotiFire.dll


        

Answer 1

You could add the following handler to the <handlers> section of your <system.webServer>:

<add 
    name="ManagedDllExtension" 
    path="api/nav/*/*.dll" 
    verb="GET" 
    type="System.Web.Handlers.TransferRequestHandler" 
    preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0" 
/>

This will make all requests containing .dll be served through the managed pipeline. Also notice how I have limited them only to the GET verb to limit the performance impact.

Answer 2

My trade off was to append /end to the end of route. .'s are ignored before the last /.

The equivalent URL would be http://127.0.0.1:81/api/nav/SpotiFire/SpotiFire.dll/end.

The benefit being that you don't get a performance hit on your assets.

Answer 3

Found it. What's needed is this (and maybe some of the things I've added above in the original post):

<system.webServer>
  <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" />
</system.webServer>