How to pass '#' without encoding it to WCF service?

Question

User289218848 posted

Hello,

I have a WCF service and I'm having an issue while passing a query string with '#' in (_password=...#) this makes the request ignoring the rest of the URL.

I have tried to Rewrite URL Rule but still the same

<rewrite>
      <rules>
        <rule name="rule1">
          <match url="(.*)" />
          <conditions>
            <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="(.*)#(.*)" />
          </conditions>
          <action type="Redirect" url="{C:1}%23{C:2}" />
        </rule>
      </rules>
    </rewrite>

I have also added 

<system.net>
    <settings>
      <httpListener unescapeRequestUrl="false"/>
    </settings>
  </system.net>

<uri>
    <schemeSettings>
      <add name="http" genericUriParserOptions="DontUnescapePathDotsAndSlashes"/>
      <add name="https" genericUriParserOptions="DontUnescapePathDotsAndSlashes"/>
    </schemeSettings>
  </uri>

<system.web>   
    <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.5"/>
    <httpRuntime requestPathInvalidCharacters="" requestValidationMode="2.0"/> 
    <pages validateRequest="false" controlRenderingCompatibilityVersion="4.0"/>
  </system.web>

But the issue is still remain.

Answer 1

User753101303 posted

Hi,

And what is the problem you have wiht encoding this value? This is the https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/prop_loc_hash.asp so it NEEDS to be encoded.