POSTing to a id with a dot gives a 404 about spark

[CorinaCiocanea]

After a bit of investigation, I'm not sure we should do something about this.

Apparently this happens because IIS assumes we are looking for a file. It sees a "." in the url and assumes it is a file name with an extension. Adding an extra "/" as in POST http://spark.furore.com/fhir/Patient/12.345..../ would solve the problem (http://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/handing-mvc-paths-with-dots-in-the-path )

I've found several solutions/workarounds for fixing it, but I'm not sure we want to implement any of them.

One would be to add this in web.config

<system.webserver>
    <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true">

But this implies performance costs, so it's not something we want.

Another solution would be to add an IIS URL Rewrite to add an extra / to all requests. Do we want this for all requests? Are we able to distinguish which urls should re-written?

What do you think?

[mharthoorn]

We'll postpone resolving this until after moving to ASP.NET core.

[kennethmyhra]

Fixed as described here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12151501/1597945. See commit: 55ec8a8