How to register a route that admits a dot in the path?

Question

I want to implement a routing system that admits a dot in the url. Currently I handle urls like:

mydomain/User/Details/raguilar

but if the username has a dot, then it is generated as:

mydomain/User/Details?username=r.aguilar

I tried to add the following route:

routes.MapRoute(
            name: "Users",
            url: "User/{action}/{username}",
            defaults: new { controller = "User", username = UrlParameter.Optional },
            constraints: new { username = @"\w+\.?\w+" }
        );

and all seems to be ok, but when I clicked on the url I received an error that says that the related resource is not found or something like that.

Is there some way to fix this issue?

Not sure if this helps, but check [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11728846/dots-in-url-causes-404-with-asp-net-mvc-and-iis) post. And [this](http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/216044/Period-dot-in-ASP-NET-MVC-Route) on codeproject. I don't have access to VS so not able to try these out. — Nilesh, Mar 11 '14 at 18:03
@Nilesh: Thanks, the first link helps me. I had looked for a question like that but I didn't find it. — Reynaldo Aguilar, Mar 11 '14 at 18:19
That is great. You can answer your own question if you found the right solution. This might help someone else. — Nilesh, Mar 11 '14 at 18:27

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 12 '14 at 09:21

In order to solve this problem I should add the following line to the system.webServer/handlers element:

<add  name="ApiURIs-ISAPI-Integrated-4.0" 
      path="/user/*" 
      verb="GET,HEAD,POST,DEBUG,PUT,DELETE,PATCH,OPTIONS" 
      type="System.Web.Handlers.TransferRequestHandler" 
      preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0" />

Where user is the controller to which belong the paths that will contain the dot.

How to register a route that admits a dot in the path?

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