ASP.NET MVC 4 Web API fails to map path containing the string “con”?

Question

What is so wrong about the string \"con\"?

OK, my api route configuration is rather uninteresting:

config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
    name: \"DefaultApi         


        

Answer 1

Certain keywords are not allowed in the URL and CON is one of them. See this. The workaround is to include the following under <system.web> in your Web.config.

<httpRuntime relaxedUrlToFileSystemMapping="true" />