Isapi or .NET?

[robdog09]

I'm working on developing a new BLOG system for my employer, the University of Delaware. I want to provide bloggers with a URL thats easy to remember. I want to have each user have a url such as "

http://....udel.edu/blogs/smithr"

instead of

http://....udel.edu/blogs/viewblog.aspx?userid=5".

I hope you can understand why. When they access "/blogs/smithr", I want to intercept it and at that point I can easily parse out smithr and server.forward of response.redirect the client to the proper location.

The problem is that I can create a module or handler (either or) to intercept all requests. All I can do is have it intercept .aspx extensions, or some other custom extenstion. When I pass it in directory form like "/blogs/smithr", IIS automatically realizes that the smithr directory does not exists and throws a 404. W/o having to create a directory for each user in order for the request to get past IIS, how can I have it parse this?

Great examples are myspace (

http://myspace.com/robdog09),

webshots (

http://community.webshots.com/user/robdog09),

and furl (

http://www.furl.net/members/robdog09).

All these have the directory-request format that I want.

ideas......