.net reportviewer control crashes with "invalid URI. hostname could not be parsed"

Question

I am wrestling with a legacy .net webforms application that contains a reportviewer control and throws an error in our production environment.

The report server and report is accessible and the control works somewhere else in the same application(!), so it shouldn't be a permission issue.

But in this particular situation, the control throws the error "invalid URI. hostname could not be parsed". Has anybody observed this error and can throw light on it?

Answer 1

Hi @Jan-Frederik Carl ,

invalid URI. hostname could not be parsed

1. Please check this, and here is a link http://www.december.com/html/spec/esccodes.html about the list of escape codes. Transfore some characters rightly with Replace function as:Replace(Fields!<name>.Value,”-“,”.”)
2. Make sure they had '\' instead of '/' in urls.
3. open your rsreportserver.config file. if you find the "UrlRoot" tag is as below, <UrlRoot>http://+:80</UrlRoot>
   please remove http://+:80 out.
   use <UrlRoot></UrlRoot> only

Best Regards,
Joy

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