I decided to write down and document for myself the different paths provided by ASP.NET, to get a grip on the subject and a reference to turn to.
The path I will be requesting is:
http://www.myurl.com/MyApplication/MyFolder/MyPage.aspx?QueryStringKey=QueryStringValue
This will be an ASP.NET-application named MyApplication in the IIS.
Request-reference
Here is the result returned by the Request-property of the page, which is a
HttpRequest.
Request.ApplicationPath:
/MyApplication
- Gets the ASP.NET application's virtual application root path on the server.
Request.AppRelativeCurrentExecutionFilePath:
~/MyFolder/MyPage.aspx
- Gets the virtual path of the application root and makes it relative by using the tilde (~) notation for the application root (as in "~/page.aspx").
Request.CurrentExecutionFilePath:
/MyApplication/MyFolder/MyPage.aspx
- Gets the virtual path of the current request.
Request.FilePath:
/MyApplication/MyFolder/MyPage.aspx
- Gets the virtual path of the current request.
Request.Path:
/MyApplication/MyFolder/MyPage.aspx
- Gets the virtual path of the current request.
Request.PathInfo:
- Gets additional path information for a resource with a URL extension.
Request.PhysicalApplicationPath:
C:\Visual Studio Projects\MyApplication\
- Gets the physical file system path of the currently executing server application's root directory.
Request.PhysicalPath:
C:\Visual Studio Projects\MyApplication\MyFolder\MyPage.aspx
- Gets the physical file system path corresponding to the requested URL.
Request.RawUrl:
/MyApplication/MyFolder/MyPage.aspx?QueryStringKey=QueryStringValue
- Gets the ASP.NET application's virtual application root path on the server.
Request.Url-reference
Then there is the property
Request.Url
that returns a
System.Uri
, with all its properties. This is an interesting thing to explore as well.
Request.Url.AbsolutePath:
/MyApplication/MyFolder/MyPage.aspx
- Gets the absolute path of the URI.
Request.Url.AbsoluteUri:
http://www.myurl.com/MyApplication/MyFolder/MyPage.aspx?QueryStringKey=QueryStringValue
- Gets the absolute URI.
Request.Url.DnsSafeHost:
www.myurl.com
- Gets an unescaped host name that is safe to use for DNS resolution.
Request.Url.Host:
www.myurl.com
- Gets the host component of this instance.
Request.Url.LocalPath:
/MyApplication/MyFolder/MyPage.aspx
- Gets a local operating-system representation of a file name.
Request.Url.OriginalString:
http://www.myurl.com:80/MyApplication/MyFolder/MyPage.aspx?QueryStringKey=QueryStringValue
- Gets the original URI string that was passed to the Uri constructor.
Request.Url.PathAndQuery:
/MyApplication/MyFolder/MyPage.aspx?QueryStringKey=QueryStringValue
- Gets the AbsolutePath and Query properties separated by a question mark (?).
Request.Url.Query:
?QueryStringKey=QueryStringValue
- Gets any query information included in the specified URI.
Request.Url.ToString():
http://www.myurl.com/MyApplication/MyFolder/MyPage.aspx?QueryStringKey=QueryStringValue
- Gets a canonical string representation for the specified Uri instance.
Request also has the property
Request.UrlReferrer
which is of the type System.Uri and has the same properties as Request.Url. It has the following description:
Gets information about the URL of the client's previous request that linked to the current URL.