URL rewriting with ASP

[daddywhite]

I need to rewrite a URL like:

FROM: /mypage.asp?my_id=78

TO: /contact-us

Where contact us is the name of that page stored ion a database.

I can easily use a ISAPI filter to change it to:

/page/78/contact-us

HOWEVER i do not want the "78" in the URL. The reason for this is that
site is already established under names like "/contact-us" as it was
done is .net somehow.

Anyway of doing this in ASP?

I had the idea of physically creating the folder "/contact-us" using
the FSO and thendropping in an index file which searched the database
for the ID based on the name of the page, then set a session based on
that ID and then did a server.transfer to the "mypage.asp" and changed
that page to look for the session rather than the querystring.

Just wondering if anyone has a neater way?

Regards and thanks for your time.

Dave.

[Anthony Jones]

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I need to rewrite a URL like:

FROM: /mypage.asp?my_id=78

TO: /contact-us

Where contact us is the name of that page stored ion a database.

I can easily use a ISAPI filter to change it to:

/page/78/contact-us

HOWEVER i do not want the "78" in the URL. The reason for this is that
site is already established under names like "/contact-us" as it was
done is .net somehow.

Anyway of doing this in ASP?

I had the idea of physically creating the folder "/contact-us" using
the FSO and thendropping in an index file which searched the database
for the ID based on the name of the page, then set a session based on
that ID and then did a server.transfer to the "mypage.asp" and changed
that page to look for the session rather than the querystring.

Just wondering if anyone has a neater way?

Regards and thanks for your time.

Dave,

I'm finding it a little bit confusing to follow what effect you are really
after. It seems to be an unusual direction, normally one takes a
non-existant url such as /contact-us and re-writes it to a specific one like
/mypage.asp?my_id=78 for actual processing. What you seem to be asking for
is the other way round, is that correct?

You indicate that currently /contact-us doesn't physically exist. What do
you expect to happen when you attempt to re-write the URL to /custom-us?

If you need to pass on info to whatever processes the /custom-us URL such as
the user ID you can have your ISAPI filter add a custom header to the
request.

--
Anthony Jones - MVP ASP/ASP.NET

[toudidel]

you can do it overwriting 404 http error

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td
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[daddywhite]

anyone got a slightly more useful and indepth answer?

thanks in advance

regards
dave