ASP.NET MVC to ignore “.html” at the end of all url

Question

I am new to asp.net mvc and now struggling with url routing. I\'m using asp.net mvc 3 RC2.

How can I create a url routing that IGNORES the very end

Answer 1

I started to work on this question as a weekend assignment :D
below code will work as requested in question. please refer below references

1] MyUrlRoute Class : RouteBase

using System; 
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Routing;

namespace MvcIgnoreUrl
{
    #region //References    
    // SO question /http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4449449/asp-net-mvc-to-ignore-html-at-the-end-of-all-url       
    // Implementing Custom Base entry - Pro Asp.Net MVc Framework       
    //- http://books.google.com/books?id=tD3FfFcnJxYC&pg=PA251&lpg=PA251&dq=.net+RouteBase&source=bl&ots=IQhFwmGOVw&sig=0TgcFFgWyFRVpXgfGY1dIUc0VX4&hl=en&ei=z61UTMKwF4aWsgPHs7XbAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CC4Q6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=.net%20RouteBase&f=false       
    // SO previous Question on ihttphandler - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3359816/can-asp-net-routing-be-used-to-create-clean-urls-for-ashx-ihttphander-handle    
    // phil haack's Route Debugger http://haacked.com/archive/2008/03/13/url-routing-debugger.aspx    

    #endregion


public class MyUrlRoute : RouteBase
{

    public override RouteData GetRouteData(HttpContextBase httpContext)
    {
        //~/Account/LogOn 
        //~/Home.aspx - Works fine
        //~/home/index.aspx  -Works Fine
        //http://localhost:57282/home/index/1/2/3 - Works fine
        //http://localhost:57282/Account/Register  http://localhost:57282/Account/LogOn - Works Fine

        string url = httpContext.Request.AppRelativeCurrentExecutionFilePath;

        //check null for URL
        const string defaultcontrollername  = "Home";
        string[] spliturl = url.Split("//".ToCharArray());
        string controllername = String.Empty;
        string actionname = "Index";



        if (spliturl.Length == 2) //for ~/home.aspx and ~/ 
        {
            if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(spliturl[1])) //TODO:  http://localhost:57282/ not working - to make it working
            {
                controllername = defaultcontrollername;
            }
            else
            {
                controllername = spliturl[1];
                if (controllername.Contains("."))
                {
                    controllername = controllername.Substring(0, controllername.LastIndexOf("."));
                }
            }
        }
        else if (spliturl.Length == 3) // For #/home/index.aspx and /home/about
        {
            controllername = spliturl[1];
            actionname = spliturl[2];
            if (actionname.Contains("."))
            {
                actionname = actionname.Substring(0, actionname.LastIndexOf("."));
            }
        }
        else //final block in final case sned it to Home Controller
        {
            controllername = defaultcontrollername;
        }


        RouteData rd = new RouteData(this, new MvcRouteHandler());
        rd.Values.Add("controller", controllername);
        rd.Values.Add("action", actionname);
        rd.Values.Add("url", url);
        return rd;
    }

    public override VirtualPathData GetVirtualPath(RequestContext requestContext, RouteValueDictionary values)
    {
        return null;
    }
}

}

in global.asax.cs add below code

    public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
    {
        routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

        routes.Add(new MyUrlRoute()); // Add before your default Routes

        routes.MapRoute(
            "Default", // Route name
            "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
            new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
        );

    }

working as expected.

possibly you can improve if/elseif code.