Closed Issue: '/', '\' and ' ' is not handled correctly in string primary key in edit link [498]

'/', '\' can't route to the correct action
' ' will be null value when binding to the id parameter.

Repro code:
public static void RegisterODataRoutes(this HttpConfiguration configuration)
{
// Metadata routes to support $metadata and code generation in the WCF Data Service client.
configuration.Routes.MapHttpRoute(ODataRouteNames.Metadata, "$metadata", new { Controller = "ODataMetadata", Action = "GetMetadata" });
configuration.Routes.MapHttpRoute(ODataRouteNames.ServiceDocument, string.Empty, new { Controller = "ODataMetadata", Action = "GetServiceDocument" });

// Relationship routes (notice the parameters is {type}Id not id, this avoids colliding with GetById(id)).
configuration.Routes.MapHttpRoute(ODataRouteNames.PropertyNavigation, "{controller}({parentId})/{navigationProperty}");

// Route for manipulating links.
//configuration.Routes.MapHttpRoute(ODataRouteNames.Link, "{controller}({id})/$links/Products");
configuration.Routes.MapHttpRoute(ODataRouteNames.Link, "{controller}({id})/$links/{navigationProperty}");

// Routes for urls both producing and handling urls like ~/Product(1), ~/Products() and ~/Products
configuration.Routes.MapHttpRoute("GetByStringId", "{controller}('{id}')");
configuration.Routes.MapHttpRoute(ODataRouteNames.GetById, "{controller}({id})");
configuration.Routes.MapHttpRoute(ODataRouteNames.DefaultWithParentheses, "{controller}()");
configuration.Routes.MapHttpRoute(ODataRouteNames.Default, "{controller}");
}

[EntitySetAttribute("todo")]
[DataServiceKeyAttribute("Name")]
public class Todo
{
[Key]
public string Name { get; set; }
}

public class TodoController : ApiController
{
static TodoController()
{
var todoes = new List<Todo>();
foreach (var c in "/ \\")
{
todoes.Add(new Todo()
{
Name = c.ToString()
});
}
Todoes = todoes;
}

public static IEnumerable<Todo> Todoes { get; set; }

public IEnumerable<Todo> Get()
{
return Todoes;
}

public Todo GetById(string id)
{
return Todoes.FirstOrDefault(t => t.Name == id);
}

[AcceptVerbs("Merge")]
public Todo Put(string id, Todo todo)
{
todo = Todoes.FirstOrDefault(t => t.Name == id);
return todo;
}
}

Client code:
[Fact]
public void TestSpecialCharacters()
{
DataServiceContext ctx = new DataServiceContext(new Uri(this.BaseAddress));
var todoes = ctx.CreateQuery<Todo>("todo").ToList();

foreach (var todo in todoes)
{
Uri selfLink;
Assert.True(ctx.TryGetUri(todo, out selfLink));
Console.WriteLine(selfLink);

ctx.UpdateObject(todo);

var response = ctx.SaveChanges().Single();

Assert.Equal(200, response.StatusCode);
}
}
Comments: won't fix. As discussed, this is a selfhost issue. Selfhost has routing issues with urls containing encoded / in the path.