URLHelper Class

Url processing methods.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  CMS.Helpers.URLHelper

Namespace: CMS.Helpers
Assembly: CMS.Helpers (in CMS.Helpers.dll) Version: 13.0.131

Syntax

public class URLHelper

The URLHelper type exposes the following members.

Constructors

	Name	Description
Public method	URLHelper

Fields

	Name	Description
Public field Static member	DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT	Constant for HTTP port.
Public field Static member	DEFAULT_HTTPS_PORT	Constant for HTTPS port.
Public field Static member	SYSTEM_QUERY_PARAMETER	Used in system requests of live site pages, it prevents the system to log statistics or activities, e.g. when dynamic newsletter is generated.

Properties

	Name	Description
Public property Static member	AliasPathParameterName	Alias path query parameter name.
Public property Static member	CustomTheme	Custom theme name.
Public property Static member	DefaultTheme	Default theme name.
Public property Static member	Host	Application's host. Is to be used for customizing host in case of having application behind a proxy. Can be set via AppSettings's key 'CMSUrlHost'.
Public property Static member	LanguageParameterName	Language query parameter name.
Public property Static member	RegExMakeLinksAbsolute	Make links absolute regular expression.
Public property Static member	SSLUrlPort	Application's SSL URL port.
Public property Static member	UrlPort	Application's URL port.

Methods

	Name	Description
Public method Static member	AddHTTPToUrl	Adds HTTP protocol to URL if it's not contain HTTP or HTTPS.
Public method Static member	AddParameterToUrl	Adds parameter to specified URL.
Public method Static member	AddUrlParameter	Add parameter to query string, queryStringValue MUST start with "?".
Public method Static member	AppendQuery	Appends the given query string to the URL. If the URL already contains query string, merges both.
Public method Static member	CheckPrefix	Checks the URL prefix. If the prefix is present, returns true and removes the prefix from the URL if removePrefix is true.
Public method Static member	CheckPrefixes	Checks the URL prefixes. If one of the the prefixes is present, returns true and removes the prefix from the URL if removePrefix is true.
Public method Static member	ClientRedirect	Performs client redirect.
Public method Static member	CombinePath	Resolves given path to be absolute (combines with given paths).
Public method Static member	ContainsProtocol	Returns true if the URL contains the protocol part.
Public method Static member	DomainMatch	Returns true if the given domain names match.
Public method Static member	EnsureHashToQueryParameters	Replaces {hash} macro by hash code for given query string parameters.
Public method Static member	EnsureProperPort	Sets proper port according to SSL option and custom port.
Public method Static member	EnsureURLPrefix	Ensures that the given URLs has the given prefix
Public method Static member	EscapeSpecialCharacters	Ensures URL without forbidden characters (%, &, #).
Public method Static member	ForbiddenCharactersReplacement	Returns string containing replacement for forbidden characters (chars that can't be used in node alias and in the file system).
Public method Static member	ForbiddenURLCharacters	Returns string containing all forbidden characters that cannot be used in node alias and in the file system.
Public method Static member	GetAbsoluteUrl(String)	Returns the absolute URL (including port) representation for the given relative URL, uses current domain and application path.
Public method Static member	GetAbsoluteUrl(String, String)	Returns the absolute URL (including port) representation for the given relative URL, uses given domain and application path.
Public method Static member	GetAbsoluteUrl(String, String, String, String)	Returns the absolute URL for the given relative URL based on the given paths.
Public method Static member	GetAllowedURLCharacters	Returns regular expression for allowed URL characters.
Public method Static member	GetApplicationUrl()	Returns current application URL (absolute), without trailing slashes.
Public method Static member	GetApplicationUrl(String)	Returns the application URL (absolute), without trailing slashes.
Public method Static member	GetAppRelativePath	Returns the relative path for specified URL.
Public method Static member	GetDomain	Returns domain or domain with port if present from specific URL.
Public method Static member	GetDomainName	Returns name (e.g. localhost) without port, www. prefix and application path.
Public method Static member	GetFullApplicationUrl	Returns current application absolute URL.
Public method Static member	GetPhysicalPath	Returns the physical file path that corresponds to the specified virtual path on the web server.
Public method Static member	GetProtocol	Returns protocol from url. e.g. http, https, ftp, ... If no protocol found, null is returned.
Public method Static member	GetQuery	Gets the query from URL.
Public method Static member	GetQueryValue(String, String)	Gets the query string value for specified key name.
Public method Static member	GetQueryValue(String, String, Boolean)	Gets the query string value for specified key name.
Public method Static member	GetSafeFileName(String, String)	Returns the safe equivalent to the given file name (with extension).
Public method Static member	GetSafeFileName(String, String, Boolean)	Returns the safe equivalent to the given file name.
Public method Static member	GetSafeUrlPart	Returns the safe part of URL. This method doesn't process complete URL it handles only part of URL.
Public method Static member	GetUrlExtension	Gets the extension for the given URL. Returns the extension with the dot, e.g. ".gif"
Public method Static member	GetUrlParameter	Returns value of query parameter from URL.
Public method Static member	GetVirtualPath	Converts the absolute path to the virtual.
Public method Static member	IsAbsoluteUrl	Returns true if provided URL is absolute and has http or https scheme. False otherwise.
Public method Static member	IsAnchor	Returns true for url's starting with hash (#) character.
Public method Static member	IsExcluded(String, String)	Checks if page with specified relative path is excluded from excluded paths.
Public method Static member	IsExcluded(String, String[])	Checks if page with specified relative path is excluded from excluded paths.
Public method Static member	IsExcludedCustom	Checks if page with specified relative path is excluded from excluded paths.
Public method Static member	IsExcludedSystem	Checks if page with specified relative path is excluded from system paths.
Public method Static member	IsExcludedSystemEnum	Checks if page with specified relative path is excluded from system paths and returns the category of the excluded page.
Public method Static member	IsLocalUrl	Returns true if the given URL is local.
Public method Static member	IsRootDefaultDocumentRelativePath	Indicates whether relativePath starting from application root identifies a default document within application root. The default document is identified by '/default.aspx', '/' or empty string relativePath.
Public method Static member	IsSystemPath	Returns true if the given path is a system path. The path is expected to be lowercase and start with slash, e.g. "/cmsmodules/..."
Public method Static member	IsTldDomain	Returns true if domain is IP address or top level domain e.g localhost
Public method Static member	LimitURLReplacements	Limits multiple replacements, starting and trailing replacements from URL. Can be disabled by app key: CMSLimitUrlReplacement.
Public method Static member	LocalRedirect	Redirects (302 HTTP status code) the response using specified URL in case it is local, otherwise redirects to ApplicationPath
Public method Static member	MakeLinksAbsolute(String)	Returns the absolute representation of the HTML links (image paths ...).
Public method	MakeLinksAbsolute(String, String)	Returns the absolute representation of the HTML links (image paths ...).
Public method Static member	MergeQueryStrings	Merges two query strings. Query string parameters should (but don't have to) start with question mark but they definitely must omit path part of URL.
Public method Static member	PropagateUrlParameters	Propagates the URL parameters from current URL to the given URL
Public method Static member	Redirect	Redirects the response using specified URL (302 HTTP status code).
Public method Static member	RedirectPermanent	Redirects the response using specified URL using permanent redirection using 301.
Public method Static member	RefreshCurrentPage	Refreshes the current page by doing a redirect to self
Public method Static member	RemoveAnchorFromUrl	Removes the anchor from the given url.
Public method Static member	RemoveApplicationPath	Removes the Application path from the URL.
Public method Static member	RemoveExtension	Removes the potential extension from the given path.
Public method Static member	RemoveFirstPart	Returns the string with first selector removed.
Public method Static member	RemoveParameterFromUrl	Removes specified parameters from the given URL.
Public method Static member	RemoveParametersFromUrl	Removes specified parameters from the given URL.
Public method Static member	RemovePort	Removes the port part from the domain name.
Public method Static member	RemovePortFromURL	Removes the port part from the whole URL.
Public method Static member	RemoveProtocol	Removes the protocol part from the URL.
Public method Static member	RemoveProtocolAndDomain	Removes the protocol and domain part from the URL.
Public method Static member	RemoveQuery	Removes the query from URL.
Public method Static member	RemoveTrailingSlashFromURL	Removes trailing slash from URL.
Public method Static member	RemoveUrlParameter	Remove parameter from query string.
Public method Static member	RemoveUrlParameters	Removes the given URL parameters
Public method Static member	RemoveWWW	Trim www if input text starts with it.
Public method Static member	ResolveClientUrl	Resolves and combine client URL with base URL.
Public method Static member	ResolveUrl	Resolves an application relative URL to the absolute form.
Public method Static member	ResponseRedirect	Redirects the response using specified URL using standard redirection with Response.Redirect.
Public method Static member	SeeOther	Redirects the client to another URL using the GET method (303 H).
Public method Static member	TryCreateAbsoluteUrl	Returns true if provided URL is absolute in platform agnostic manner. On Windows platform preserves semantics of TryCreate(String, UriKind, Uri). On Unix platforms it also ensures that relative urls are not considered as absolute file paths.
Public method Static member	UnMapPath	Converts the physical file path to virtual path within the web application.
Public method Static member	UnResolveUrl	Un-resolves the given URL (replaces application path with ~).
Public method Static member	UpdateParameterInUrl	Update parameter in specified URL.
Public method Static member	UrlEncodeQueryString	URL encodes query string in given URL. Needs HttpContext.
Public method Static member	UseURLsWithTrailingSlash	Obsolete. Gets the settings for the URL trailing slash rules.