Using RewritePath - but I want to send the user to a 404

[Klaus Jensen]

For a customer I have created a website, where we use dynamic url-rewrites
by using rewritepath in global.asa.

Ie the url /products/gizmo.aspx does not really exist, but I look gizmo up
in the db and find the relevant product, and then do a rewritepath to
productpresentation.aspx?id=whatever

But in some cases, I get a request for /products/someoddproduct.aspx which
does not exist. I then want to send the user a 404-error from code. How do I
do that?

Thanks in advance

- Klaus

 

[Greg Young [MVP]]

By simply not rewriting the URL this should happen.

Which URL rewriting setup are you using?

Cheers,

Greg

 

[Klaus Jensen]

By simply not rewriting the URL this should happen.

I'm sitting here laughing at myself... I dont know why I did not think of
that. Thanks.

Which URL rewriting setup are you using?

In Application_BeginRequest I evaluate the URL. If it's
/Products/Gizmo.aspx, I look in the db for the product gizmo, retrieve the
pageId for it and rewrite the url to Productpresentation.aspx?id=xxx

And now if gizmo does not exist, I keep my dirty paws off the big red
"RewriteUrl"-button.

 

[John Timney \( MVP \)]

This did make me smirk a bit...........lol

Incidentally, the code you would have needed had you been catching this and
trying to provide a response would be something like this.

Response.StatusCode = 404;
Response.StatusDescription = "Not Found";
Response.Write("<h2>Page not found</h2>");
Response.End();
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Regards

John Timney
Microsoft MVP