Some sort of URL rewriting ...

suraj rai

19y4.2k.NET

Hi all ,

I am workin on a website say www.MyWebsite.com which is similar to a b2b portal . Now here we ve a
number of companies and to each company we are providing a homepage which
will be a dynamic page for all the comapnies.

Now this homepage will be loaded according to the company id passed through querystring
or by some other means.

Now what i want is that i don'nt want to show the querystring value in the url

plus I want to let the company access this page by there company name ...

for example ...

for infosys : the url shoud be www.MyWebsite.com/infosys
for abc : www.MyWebsite.com/abc

something like this in http://www.seekandsource.com : http://snsvo9.seekandsource.com/kebabish/

i think i ve to do URL rewriting .. bt i m nt getting hw to do ...

Can anyone help me ....

tnx & Regards
s_raj0205

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john ginzo19y ago
when you use url rewriting, the url the user sees can be anything you want. So in your example, the user can type:

www.MyWebsite.com/Infosys

Then in the Request event in your global.asa, you can look at the url, realize he is looking for infosys, and then rewrite the url to

www.mywebsite.com/company.aspx?id=1

the user's url in the address bar stays the same even though you are serving them the one with the parameter

John Ginzo
GinzoTech Solutions
www.ginzotech.com
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suraj rai19y ago
Hi John ,

Tnx for d reply ...

I think the way you ve done .. still I need to call the page like this if I
ve understand ur code . For example ..

If the page is : www.MyWebSite.com/Company.aspx?pageid=1

Then atmost in the url Company.aspx will be visible .. rite ...

But wat I want is that ...

The company pages has to be call with a parameter depending on the company but

the url should still display tat perticular company name...

like if I need the details of Infosys ..then url whoud display

www.MyWebsite.com/Infosys

and in reality the displayed page will be www.MyWebSite.com/Company.aspx?pageid=1

if Infosys's company id is 1 .

MOreover the user should be able to display the page by typing www.MyWebsite.com/Infosys

in the address bar .

I just want to know .. is that posible .. if U can give me sum suggesstion wud be

highly appreciated.

Tnx & Regards
s_raj0205
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john ginzo19y ago
This is the model I have used in the past, which seems to work well....

http://www.stardeveloper.com/articles/display.html?article=2004022801&page=1

There are also two other ways to do it. You could search the web for examples of writing an ISAPI redirection filter, but that is a little more diffiult, or there is a way in .NET to do the same using httphandlers. However, the code above is currently working on a couple of large websites I have done with no issues.

John Ginzo
GinzoTech Solutions
www.ginzotech.com
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