shortcut url's and asp.net

[Hans Kesting]

Hi all,

Sometimes you see "shorcut url's" advertised of the form
//servername/directory (easy to remember), that will lead you to
somewhere within the site (to a possibly more difficult url)

example: //www.microsoft.com/office leads to a different
url, specifically for Office.

question: is it possible using asp.net to define such shortcut url's
that will lead the visitor to the "real" page?
I suspect that there is a problem activating the .net system as there is no
aspx page referenced, so IIS doesn't know that it is supposed to
activate some asp.net function.

Hans Kesting

 

[adnan boz]

Hi,
So far I could understand ,u want to redirect a request.
But, it has nothing todo with the ".net system".
Make a default page (set it as default content page on IIS) to your "easy to
remember" site,
which will redirect the client with a Javascript (or Response.Redirect
within cs if u need which will result the same) to your "difficult url".

Good Luck
Adnan

 

[Hans Kesting]

Maybe I need to clarify a bit, see below

Hi all,

Sometimes you see "shorcut url's" advertised of the form
//servername/directory (easy to remember), that will lead you to
somewhere within the site (to a possibly more difficult url)

example: //www.microsoft.com/office leads to a different
url, specifically for Office.

question: is it possible using asp.net to define such shortcut url's
that will lead the visitor to the "real" page?
I suspect that there is a problem activating the .net system as there is no
aspx page referenced, so IIS doesn't know that it is supposed to
activate some asp.net function.

Hans Kesting

Ultimately I want the webmaster to be able to go to some backoffice
page, select a newsitem (or whatever) and "publish" it under a shortcut url.
He can then say "go to http://mysite/mylatestnews" instead of
"go to http://mysite/dir/default.aspx?module=news&newsid=<some impossible guid>"
(where "mylatestnews" is NOT fixed, but a term he can specify himself)

Hans Kesting

 

[Patrice]

Try :
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/030522.htm

 

[Hans Kesting]

Try :
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/030522.htm

Thanks, it looks interesting. I will look into it.

Hans Kesting