http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.pnghttp://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/I CANNOT ENTER MY OWN PROFILE!http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/en-usMon, 20 Jul 2009 17:19:16 GMTMon, 20 Jul 2009 17:19:16 GMTEvNet (EvNet, Version=1.0.3608.3122, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null)<p>Yup, that's the solution we decided on.&nbsp; Not sure if Duncan got around to fixing that yet or not.</p>http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=479777Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:19:15 GMThttp://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=4797770http://channel9.msdn.com/479777/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0Yup, that's the solution we decided on.&nbsp; Not sure if Duncan got around to fixing that yet or not.Erik Porter0http://channel9.msdn.com/479777/Trackback.aspx<p>By reasoning, I'm talking about mapping extensions, which point to some type of execution "engine" (DLL). Just because you can have URL's without any extensions (like.aspx, .whatever,...) doesn't mean that when you supply a URL ending in a "." that IIS will magically understand what this means. At any rate, I'm certain Erik and rest of the C9 dev stars will solve this issue. My vote is to prevent this from happening by not allowing usernames to be created that end with ".". For the ones that currently do (I think there's just one), remove the trailing dot and call it a day (so, change the user name to have no "." at the end, in the db). </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>C</p>http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=479554Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:56:05 GMThttp://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=4795540http://channel9.msdn.com/479554/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0By reasoning, I'm talking about mapping extensions, which point to some type of execution "engine" (DLL). Just because you can have URL's without any extensions (like.aspx, .whatever,...) doesn't mean that when you supply a URL ending in a "." that IIS will magically understand what this means. At&#8230;Charles0http://channel9.msdn.com/479554/Trackback.aspx<p>Yes, evil.&nbsp; It's out to get us.</p>http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=479487Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:43:04 GMThttp://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=4794870http://channel9.msdn.com/479487/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0Yes, evil.&nbsp; It's out to get us.Erik Porter0http://channel9.msdn.com/479487/Trackback.aspx<p>Probably because filenames must not have a dot at the end, because a dot in the end would indicate you mean a directory instead of a filename with no extension, in the case both are present. I see, so IIS is still&nbsp;evil and unable to pass all URLs to the application...</p>http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=479105Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:32:35 GMThttp://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=4791050http://channel9.msdn.com/479105/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0Probably because filenames must not have a dot at the end, because a dot in the end would indicate you mean a directory instead of a filename with no extension, in the case both are present. I see, so IIS is still&nbsp;evil and unable to pass all URLs to the application...Dorian Muthig0http://channel9.msdn.com/479105/Trackback.aspx<p>No, IIS does not.&nbsp; Do you see any file extensions in Channel 9 urls?</p> <p>This seems to just be a weird (more than likely legacy) case.</p>http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=478856Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:13:10 GMThttp://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=4788560http://channel9.msdn.com/478856/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0No, IIS does not.&nbsp; Do you see any file extensions in Channel 9 urls? This seems to just be a weird (more than likely legacy) case.Erik Porter0http://channel9.msdn.com/478856/Trackback.aspx<p>Why would you need to reason for&nbsp;an execution path? Just use a default one, for everything.<br />All URLs under the path of where the application resides should be passed to the application and the application determines which content should be displayed. Does IIS mandate a file extension of some sort? If so, that's bad.</p>http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=478599Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:57:16 GMThttp://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=4785990http://channel9.msdn.com/478599/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0Why would you need to reason for&nbsp;an execution path? Just use a default one, for everything.All URLs under the path of where the application resides should be passed to the application and the application determines which content should be displayed. Does IIS mandate a file extension of some sort? If so, that's bad.Dorian Muthig0http://channel9.msdn.com/478599/Trackback.aspx<p>Precisely... "dot nothing" or URL string +"." doesn't leave much room for the server to reason about what execution&nbsp;path to take...</p> <p>C</p>http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=478530Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:51:59 GMThttp://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=4785300http://channel9.msdn.com/478530/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0Precisely... "dot nothing" or URL string +"." doesn't leave much room for the server to reason about what execution&nbsp;path to take... CCharles0http://channel9.msdn.com/478530/Trackback.aspx<p>+1</p>http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=478419Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:19:33 GMThttp://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=4784190http://channel9.msdn.com/478419/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0+1Wouldn&#39;t you like to know0http://channel9.msdn.com/478419/Trackback.aspx<p>shouldnt matter.. but clearly does.. iis is still pretty traditional in that it maps url paths relatively to app paths to find a unit of execution.. although iis7 is a big step away from that.</p>http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=478368Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:26:07 GMThttp://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=4783680http://channel9.msdn.com/478368/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0shouldnt matter.. but clearly does.. iis is still pretty traditional in that it maps url paths relatively to app paths to find a unit of execution.. although iis7 is a big step away from that.stevo_0http://channel9.msdn.com/478368/Trackback.aspx<p>Well, I'm pretty sure we are doing it right and we don't even get an option to handle the request if the period is at the end... I agree that the character shouldn't be an issue, but we have found now that it is...</p> <p>Sadly, I haven't figured out a good way to escape it yet, but blocking it on the way in is a good idea regardless.</p>http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=478181Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:03:43 GMThttp://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=4781810http://channel9.msdn.com/478181/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0Well, I'm pretty sure we are doing it right and we don't even get an option to handle the request if the period is at the end... I agree that the character shouldn't be an issue, but we have found now that it is... Sadly, I haven't figured out a good way to escape it yet, but blocking it on the way in is a good idea regardless.Duncan Mackenzie0http://channel9.msdn.com/478181/Trackback.aspx<p>Shouldn't matter either. HTTP requests represent symbolic links, not files. The symbolic links can have the same structure as the file system, though. And if you're doing it right, the only character that cannot be allowed is the # symbol because browsers use it for anker links. ? and / could to some extent appear in the middle of URLs without causing problems, but that would require to all possible URLs to be mapped to the content or they have to appear in the last possible URL tree level. IIS shouldn't support that weird stuff, though, I think.</p>http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=478024Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:10:39 GMThttp://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=4780240http://channel9.msdn.com/478024/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0Shouldn't matter either. HTTP requests represent symbolic links, not files. The symbolic links can have the same structure as the file system, though. And if you're doing it right, the only character that cannot be allowed is the # symbol because browsers use it for anker links. ? and / could to&#8230;Dorian Muthig0http://channel9.msdn.com/478024/Trackback.aspx<p>Could you also add logic that detects if somebody is using too much upper-case letters and exclamation points?</p>http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=478001Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:39:16 GMThttp://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=4780010http://channel9.msdn.com/478001/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0Could you also add logic that detects if somebody is using too much upper-case letters and exclamation points?Tommy Carlier0http://channel9.msdn.com/478001/Trackback.aspx<p>I've found <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(VS.85).aspx">something on MSDN that implies this is an underlying limitation of the OS</a>, which might explain the weird behaviour I'm seeing with this path and IIS. When any path on C9 is requested our handler is called and that starts our pipeline to process and respond to the request... but if you have a period at the end it just goes to a 404, without going through our code at all.</p> <p>I'll just have to add logic to encode periods at the end of names</p>http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=477989Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:17:43 GMThttp://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=4779890http://channel9.msdn.com/477989/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0I've found something on MSDN that implies this is an underlying limitation of the OS, which might explain the weird behaviour I'm seeing with this path and IIS. When any path on C9 is requested our handler is called and that starts our pipeline to process and respond to the request... but if you&#8230;Duncan Mackenzie0http://channel9.msdn.com/477989/Trackback.aspx<p>Dots in the middle of a url won't break anything.&nbsp; It's the fact that the dot is at the end of the url.</p>http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=477795Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:37:24 GMThttp://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=4777950http://channel9.msdn.com/477795/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0Dots in the middle of a url won't break anything.&nbsp; It's the fact that the dot is at the end of the url.Erik Porter0http://channel9.msdn.com/477795/Trackback.aspx<p>It's a dot... the only characters that can genuinely break URLs are <strong><em>#</em></strong>, <strong><em>/</em></strong> and <strong><em>?</em></strong></p> <p>You can't be serious...</p>http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=477719Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:12:41 GMThttp://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=4777190http://channel9.msdn.com/477719/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0It's a dot... the only characters that can genuinely break URLs are #, / and ? You can't be serious...Dorian Muthig0http://channel9.msdn.com/477719/Trackback.aspx<p>Yes. The bug is that we allow you to enter a username with a "." at the end... This is our bug, not yours... We will fix this by not allowing special characters like a dot in usernames because this will break URLs.</p> <p>C</p>http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=476819Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:09:31 GMThttp://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=4768190http://channel9.msdn.com/476819/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0Yes. The bug is that we allow you to enter a username with a "." at the end... This is our bug, not yours... We will fix this by not allowing special characters like a dot in usernames because this will break URLs. CCharles0http://channel9.msdn.com/476819/Trackback.aspx<p>If you had chosen a decent nickname you wouldn't have this problem.</p>http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=476792Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:41:00 GMThttp://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Feedback/476761-I-CANNOT-ENTER-MY-OWN-PROFILE/?CommentID=4767920http://channel9.msdn.com/476792/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0If you had chosen a decent nickname you wouldn't have this problem.ZippyV0http://channel9.msdn.com/476792/Trackback.aspx