rewriting URLs?

[Smokey Grindle]

I use to know how to do this in .net 1.1, but not sure in 2.0 (cant even
remember 1.1 its been 2yrs since I did ASP.net last) but say I have this
site that is dynamic

http://localhost/content.aspx?page=23

how can I make that translate into this

http://localhost/Content/23

that virtual path that translates into an actual page... thanks!

 

[John Timney \(MVP\)]

In 2.0 theres a new handler, with a section in web.config to list your
re-mappings called urlMappings.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms228302.aspx

Regards

John Timney (MVP)

 

[Patrick.O.Ige]

Smokey,
http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/URLRewriter.asp
hope that helps
Patrick

 

[Smokey Grindle]

doesnt help much with dynamic sites though does it? this is pretty much a
static rewrite it seems...

 

[John Timney \(MVP\)]

Yes, your not the first person to mention that as an issue, and people have
alrady started providing workarounds.

Perhaps this is more up your street
http://www.urlrewriting.net/Config.aspx?Language=en&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

or this:
http://www.willasrari.com/blog/application-beginrequest-code-in-globalasax/00043.aspx

 

[Smokey Grindle]

thanks!

Yes, your not the first person to mention that as an issue, and people
have alrady started providing workarounds.

Perhaps this is more up your street
http://www.urlrewriting.net/Config.aspx?Language=en&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

or this:
http://www.willasrari.com/blog/application-beginrequest-code-in-globalasax/00043.aspx

 

[Alan Silver]

In 2.0 theres a new handler, with a section in web.config to list your
re-mappings called urlMappings.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms228302.aspx

Do you know if this can be used when the URL entered doesn't contain
..aspx? I have a client who wants to advertise URLs like...

http://www.domain.com/software

and have it map to the real ASP.NET page. Basically, his audience is
really not techno-savvy and he is bothered by the .aspx endings as they
are harder to read. I know I could just bung the various bits of content
in folders, but I have other reasons why I don't want to do that. This
urlMappings handler looked just the ticket, but only if it can be used
with an URL like I showed. I have a suspicion that this URL won't get
passed to the ASP.NET engine, so the mapping will never get done.

Any comments? TIA