GETting a URL with an url-encoded slash

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This is a terrible hack, bound to be incompatible with future versions of the framework and so on.

But it works!

(on my machine…)

Uri uri = new Uri("http://example.com/%2F");
ForceCanonicalPathAndQuery(uri);
using (WebClient webClient = new WebClient())
{
  webClient.DownloadData(uri);
}

void ForceCanonicalPathAndQuery(Uri uri){
  string paq = uri.PathAndQuery; // need to access PathAndQuery
  FieldInfo flagsFieldInfo = typeof(Uri).GetField("m_Flags", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
  ulong flags = (ulong) flagsFieldInfo.GetValue(uri);
  flags &= ~((ulong) 0x30); // Flags.PathNotCanonical|Flags.QueryNotCanonical
  flagsFieldInfo.SetValue(uri, flags);
}

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