Dynamic lnks? 2

[serializer]

I am not sure where and what to search on. I will give you one example. Let say I have a site called

http://www.games.com.

In this site I have a lot of games and I want the site links to be like this:

http://www.games.com/Defender

When going to this page I want to reach a script called game.aspx?id=xxxx

I don't the link

http://www.games.com/game.aspx?id=xxxx

to be seen but only the

http://www.games.com/Defender.

How do I do this the best way?

 

[nicklieb]

have a look at url rewriting.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?clie...n&q=c#+url+rewriting&meta=&btnG=Google+Search

 

[serializer]

Thanks!

 

[jmeckley]

this can be pretty tricky with IIS6. this has to do with how/when IIS processes asp.net requests. URLs like

http://www.games.com/Defender

are especially difficult because the Defender directory doesn't actually exist. and there is no processing instructions to inform IIS this is an asp.net request.

on way to work around this is suffixing the URLs with aspx
(

http://www.games.com/Defender.aspx)

which would allow IIS6 to know this is an aspx request, which would allow the url rewrite to occur and redirect to game.aspx?id=#

another way is to create custom IIS filters, but that is a whole different beast.

If your using IIS7, asp.net processing is built into the pipeline and allows for clean URLs like

http://www.games.com/Defender.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.