Need some help with URL rewriting

[afroblanca]

Hey all,

I'm wanting to build a site that uses URL rewriting. It will serve up all content from a single page, let's call it

http://www.mysite.com/content/serveContent.aspx,

which will be passed a querystring with an article identifier. However, I want users to see nice, human-readable, SEO-friendly URLs. Stuff like

http://www.mysite.com/content/sailing/my-day-on-the-ocean/index.aspx

or

http://www.mysite.com/content/painting/oil/why-rembrandt-was-awesome/index.aspx.

This would seem like the perfect scenario for URL rewriting. However, from everything I've read, URL rewriting in .NET is no simple matter! All we are given is a single, poorly-documented function, HttpContext.RewritePath. What's more, it seems like there are many, many pitfalls to URL rewriting in .NET - apparently it crashes search engine spiders, messes up relative URLs, and does other nasty things. This is very distressing!

Anyway, I'm looking for a nice, simple, clean way to do URL rewriting in .NET, one that doesn't involve a lot of hacks and workarounds. What's the best way to do this?

Some say that .NET's URL rewriting facilities are so hopeless that I should seek out a third-party component to accomplish the task. Is this the case? If so, what is the best package? If this is not the case, and .NET's built-in facilities will do just fine, what do I need to do to make sure that everything works the way it should? Remember, I want something nice and clean, without a lot of hacks and workarounds. Is there any site that has good documentation forHttpContext.RewritePath and its myriad overloads?

Also, are there any good tutorials for accomplishing URL rewriting in .NET?

Thank you for your time.

 

[ca8msm]

Have a look at this article on ScottGu's blog:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/02/26/tip-trick-url-rewriting-with-asp-net.aspx

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