Creating HttpHandlers

[Prince]

I have the following code within the ASP.NET project I
have created.

public class RedirectHandler : IHttpHandler{
//empty constructor
public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context){
response.Redirect("page2.aspx");
}
public bool IsReusable(){
get {return false;}
}
}

then in the Web.config file, within the <System.web> I
have

<httpHandlers>
<add verb="*" path="*/xxx" type="RedirectHandler" />
</httpHandlers>

Basically, what I'm trying to do is, when a user enters,
www.xyz.com/xxx, I want the browser to redirect to
www.xyz.com/xxx.aspx. I don't mind if the user sees the
url in the address. There is no page named xxx. The
page is xxx.aspx but I don't want the person to HAVE to
enter the extension. They can but I don't want them to
HAVE to.

When I run the program, I get the following error.

Description: An error occurred during the processing of a
configuration file required to service this request.
Please review the specific error details below and modify
your configuration file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: Could not load type
DistributorRedirectHandler from assembly System.Web

It then highlights the <add verb="*" .....
line. Can anyone explain what this error message means
and how I can address it?

thanks,
Prince

 

[Prince]

It could also be a directory: For example, if you type
into your browser www.microsoft.com/developer it is
redirected to another page. I wish to do something as
simple as that since I don't have access to IIS. My
website is being hosted so I would like to accomplish the
same thing or something very similar.

 

[clintonG]

Google: "url rewriting" and variants as there are many articles
that document the objective.


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