Fully qualified root URL

[JJ]

I am embarrassed to ask this as I'm sure it must be easy to do, but I've
looked everywhere.

I just want to get the root url of my web site:
i.e. http://www.mywebsite.com/

I am writing code that produces a HTML newletter that is sent out to
subscribers. The images therefore need fully qualifed links (not relative
ones). As I'd like to use this code on other sites, I want to find the root
url programmatically.

As I am developing in visual studio 2005 hosting environment at the moment,
so I guess the caculation would come up with something like
'http://locahost:1234/www.mywebsite.com' . On the 'live site it needs to
return 'http://www.mywebsite.com/' . Can 'ApplicationPath' be used here?

I'm confused - sorry. Any help very appreciated.

JJ

[JJ]

Some seem to be using this method:
string baseUrl = Request.Url.Scheme + "://" + Request.Url.Authority +
Request.ApplicationPath.TrimEnd('/') + '/';

But I have read that using 'Request.' variables doesn't always work?

??

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[Juan T. Llibre]

Dim appname as string = Request.Url.Host
Dim FQN as string = "The full URL to the application root is : " & "http://" & appname &
Request.ApplicationPath & "/"

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