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';' character, hex value 0x3B, cannot be included in the name

I saw the error "The"; character, hex value 0x3B, cannot be included in the name. "in my log files for an ASP.NET web application. The logged url looks something like this:

mypage.aspx?paramone=one+two&paramtwo=zero+1

So my first question is what type of system / browser encodes the original query string? (This rarely happens)

I tried to solve this problem with the following piece of code in the Page_Load () event:

string rawUrl = Request.RawUrl;
if (rawUrl.Contains(amp))
{
    rawUrl = rawUrl.Replace("&", "&");
    Server.Transfer(rawUrl, false);
    return;
}

However, when it returns to this page, it &

returns to the query string. So my guess is that the .Transfer () function encodes the first parameter.

Suggestions for solving this problem?

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  • Your web server should be able to register the "user agent" field from the HTTP request, which should allow you to identify the culprit.

  • Don't fix it - there is a very well-defined set of legal syntaxes for URI parameters, and this is not one of them.



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