✒ 0007.0038 VS2019 VB MVC5 Razor root web.config

There is a setting that needs to be set in order for addresses (URIs) with special characters to not crash the application. I'm not sure why this happens or if it even still happens today, in my experience certain special characters in a URI, I think it was in a search request, caused the application to crash. To fix this, I utilized something called RequestPathInvalidCharacters


Microsoft Pointer

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.web.configuration.httpruntimesection.requestpathinvalidcharacters



/web.config


Add requestPathInvalidCharacters="" to system.web.

This is what mine looked like.


  <system.web>
    <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.7.2"/>
    <httpRuntime targetFramework="4.7.2" requestPathInvalidCharacters=""/>
  </system.web>