How to - Friendly URLs

[Jose]

Hi All,

Could someone explain how the following functionality is implemented?
In modern "Web 2.0" sites user "profiles" (this is just one example)
are visible by a URL like "www.myapp.com/users/bob". Usually I have
implemented this by the following method -
"www.myapp.com/users/profile.aspx?user=bob". Would I need to use a http
handler and map it to "profile.aspx" if I can match the url "/users/"?

Any details would be appreciated. Any code samples would be nice too
:-)

Thanks,

Jose

[Kirk Allen Evans]

What you are talking about is URL Rewriting. ASP.NET 2.0 provides simple
URL Rewriting in a limited fashion. That is, there are no wildcards
available or pattern matching options, each mapping corresponds to a single
URL. If you use querystrings, then you will end up with a config file that
looks like this:

<system.web>
<urlMappings enabled="true">
<add url="~/users/bob" mappedUrl="~/users/profile.aspx?user=bob"/>
<add url="~/users/keith"
mappedUrl="~/users/profile.aspx?user=keith"/>
<add url="~/users/kirk" mappedUrl="~/users/profile.aspx?user=kirk"/>
</urlMappings>
</system.web>
If this does not suit your needs, then consider something like
UrlRewriter.net.

http://urlrewriter.net/

--
Kirk Allen Evans
Developer Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
blogs.msdn.com/kaevans

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"Jose" <di*********@avandis.co.uk> wrote in message
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Hi All,

Could someone explain how the following functionality is implemented?
In modern "Web 2.0" sites user "profiles" (this is just one example)
are visible by a URL like "www.myapp.com/users/bob". Usually I have
implemented this by the following method -
"www.myapp.com/users/profile.aspx?user=bob". Would I need to use a http
handler and map it to "profile.aspx" if I can match the url "/users/"?

Any details would be appreciated. Any code samples would be nice too
:-)

Thanks,

Jose

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

Sure, you can implement this kind of functionality with the RewritePath
function.
Here's more info:
http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/URLRewriter.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...epathtopic.asp

--
I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr, MCSD, MVP
http://SteveOrr.net
"Jose" <di*********@avandis.co.uk> wrote in message
news:11*********************@38g2000cwa.googlegrou ps.com...

Hi All,

Could someone explain how the following functionality is implemented?
In modern "Web 2.0" sites user "profiles" (this is just one example)
are visible by a URL like "www.myapp.com/users/bob". Usually I have
implemented this by the following method -
"www.myapp.com/users/profile.aspx?user=bob". Would I need to use a http
handler and map it to "profile.aspx" if I can match the url "/users/"?

Any details would be appreciated. Any code samples would be nice too
:-)

Thanks,

Jose