ASP.NET MVC Routing to Intranet Page - asp.net-mvc

Question

I have a seemingly strange problem with ASP.NET MVC.
We built a Website for Customer X and deployed it on their Server. First Problem is that it's behind a Novel Access Manager so all requests to the page go through:
https://portal.customerx.com/intranet/tool/{and here starts my Route for MVC}
For that reason i set up the Globol.asax like this:
routes.MapRoute(
"SubfolderZielsetzung", // Route name
"intranet/tool" + "{controller}/{action}/{objectOneId}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", objectOneId = "objectOneId" } // Parameter defaults
);
Now the request was that i add on the Homepage a hyperlink to a static Website which is in their Intranet:
https://portal.customerx.com/asdf/foo/bar/1337/test-1
if i simply add to the Homepage following HTML tags:
Support
So and now comes the strange thing. This is what will get rendered from the engine:
<a href="https://portal.customerx.com/intranet/tool/asdf/foo/bar/1337/test-1">
For some reason, and i cannot get the answer why, the routing engine alters my hyperlink even though i don't use any Html Helpers and sets the URL Prefix after "https://portal.customerx.com/"
EDIT
I wrote yesterday that I've found the answer, but as it turns out it wasn't the answer either.
I've put following route at the top of the Global Asax as a hint from this articlte:
Asp.net MVC and redirect to External site
routes.MapRoute(
"RedirectSiteRoute",
"{site}",
new { },
new { site = new SiteRouteConstraint() }
);
and:
public class SiteRouteConstraint : IRouteConstraint
{
public bool Match(System.Web.HttpContextBase httpContext, Route route, string parameterName, RouteValueDictionary values, RouteDirection routeDirection)
{
string[] allowedSites = new[] { "https://portal.customerx.com/intranet/tool/asdf/foo/bar/1337/test-1" };
return allowedSites.Any(x => x == values[parameterName].ToString());
}
}
Then I moved all the routes with the URL Prefix to the bottom of the global asax so now all my Routes without URL_Prefix were at the top.
This is how it looked like:
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.MapRoute(
"RedirectSiteRoute",
"{site}",
new { },
new { site = new SiteRouteConstraint() }
);
routes.MapRoute(
"Grundauftrag", // Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{objectOneId}/{objectTwoId}/{objectThreeId}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", objectOneId = "objectOneId", objectTwoId = "objectTwoId", objectThreeId = "objectThreeId" } // Parameter defaults
);
routes.MapRoute(
"Zielsetzung", // Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{objectOneId}/{objectTwoId}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", objectOneId = "objectOneId", objectTwoId = "objectTwoId" } // Parameter defaults
);
routes.MapRoute(
"Default", // Route name
"{controller}/{action}/{objectOneId}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", objectOneId = "objectOneId" } // Parameter defaults
);
routes.MapRoute(
"SubfolderGrundauftrag", // Route name
Const.URL_PREFIX + "{controller}/{action}/{objectOneId}/{objectTwoId}/{objectThreeId}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", objectOneId = "objectOneId", objectTwoId = "objectTwoId", objectThreeId = "objectThreeId" } // Parameter defaults
);
routes.MapRoute(
"SubfolderZielsetzung", // Route name
Const.URL_PREFIX + "{controller}/{action}/{objectOneId}/{objectTwoId}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", objectOneId = "objectOneId", objectTwoId = "objectTwoId" } // Parameter defaults
);
routes.MapRoute(
"Subfolder", // Route name
Const.URL_PREFIX + "{controller}/{action}/{objectOneId}", // URL with parameters
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", objectOneId = "objectOneId" } // Parameter defaults
);
}
With that on the customer platform the static link worked fine. But now all the other links within my page didn't work anymore...
I had to put the routes with URL_Prefix back to the top for it to work again but now of course the static link does not work anymore.
Any Ideas?

Answer 1

add https:// otherwise IIS looks for this resource from the root foler ot your site

Answer 2

I've had similar issues where I need to bind incoming and outgoing routes in different ways.
I did this by putting my incoming bindings first (as you can't really force a specific route on incoming). For the outgoing link I use Html.RouteLink and I can specify which route I want to use regardless of its position.