Asp.Net Routing - Replace white spaces %20 with dashes from URLs generated [duplicate]

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I use Asp.net 4 and Routing

I use this Route to create SEO friendly URLs for my website. Title url paramenter is a string example "This is a Title" as result I get the URL in browser with this format /Content/This%20is%20a%20Title.

I would rather have the white spaces %20 replaced with a more readable dash for example: /Content/This-is-a-Title.

Any idea how to do it? Thanks for your help on this

        routes.MapPageRoute(
            "View Content",                     // Route name
            "Content/{Title}",                  // Route URL
            "~/Cms/FrontEndCms/Content.aspx"    // Web page to handle route
        );

George Stocker · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-29 13:15:24Z

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When you redirect to this URL, use the following:

Response.Redirect(Page.GetRouteUrl(
    "View Content", 
    new { Title=(yourtitlehere).ToString().Trim().Replace(" ","-") })
);

I added Trim(). If the title starts or ends with a space the server may think it's a different path and return a 404: Resource not found.

edited Oct 29, 2012 at 13:15

George Stocker

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answered Oct 10, 2011 at 21:27

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4 Comments

GibboK Over a year ago

hi thanks for your answer but the code should run on routing natively.

Ahmed Samir Hasan Over a year ago

yes when you redirect or you can set url of links with that code

GibboK Over a year ago

Thanks, now I understand. Your solution is quick to adopt, but I suppose could have some performance draw back. At the end I'm stripping my urls and storing in the DB, so I use routing to get the clean URL or my links. Anyway many thanks :)

Subliminal Hash Over a year ago

I am having the same problem and came to this link.. I think it is quite useful to have: deliveron.com/blog/post/…

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