Dealing With Friendly Urls
My application runs on ASP and the business logic is embedded in Dlls written in VB. The application hosts a list of articles for the user to view and these are accessible through some complex urls like "http://mysite/articles/category1?articleid=34512". I would like to denote a friendly url to these articles such as "http://mysite/articles/kb_TaxPlanning.asp". I am thinking of using an ISAPI filter to do the work for me. My friend was trying on using a httphandler, but it did not work. Please share with us the resources for creating an isapi filter for the same. Also how to use the same for the expected result?
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has any one tried SE Friendly URLs with ASP & IIS? There's nothing like mod_rewrite for IIS. Ofcourse there are some 3rd party COM available but how many of us can use them on shared webservers?
So, is there a way to do it?
For those people who don't know what I'm talking about,
Normal URLs with querystrings look like
http://www.example.com/myPage.asp?id=1
while SE Friendly URL will look like
http://www.example.com/mPage/1/
The operative words being look like. You will see the 2nd URL in the browser's address bar but the server will take it as the 1st URL.
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Anybody any ideas?
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i realy need your suggestion to how to do this...i do not want to run on all this tables every time...i want it be most minimal and smart.
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Say for instance I have these classes:
Database
Users
News
Reviews
All of these classes have a method like getUserByID() or getNewsByID() but they are all using a private database object from the Database class.
Are they all using the same connection behind the scenes (underneath ASP) or are they all actually using separate connections? And if in fact they are using different connections then is there a common design patterns that alleviates the pressure by passing around the same DB object?
It makes me a bit uncomfortable to know that every class is creating a new Database object and a new connection on top of that; however, if you were pulling data from a MS SQL database for the users and an Access (ugh) database for the Reviews this would be necessary.
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retail price/wholesale price. In some instances, the wholesale price
is zero, so I get a division by zero error.
What can I do to avoid this?
Also, how can I get this to only show two decimals, instead of it
going .##### the way it does. I want it to look like .45%
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Does anyone know how to get around this problem? or what's causing this? I dont even get an error msg. It just doesn't show anything as if there was nothing there.
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Post to two different urls at once for my main Join form.Or, perhaps 'hide' the salesforce.com form and somehow populate the values in the form and when the visitor clicks my Join form it also posts the sf form?
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var loc = window.location.href
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Are using this practice? If yes which method are you using?
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I need to convert the Query Strings into Clean URLs, Found some articles on
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Is there a way to add a header to a page that will change what text the
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For example, say I point my browser to
http://www.domain.com/request.asp?a=1&b=2.
I would like IIS to send back the content generated by the page
request.asp, but would like the address is in the browser to read
"http://www.domain.com/request/index.asp"
Is there any possible way to do this? It seems like this should be possible.
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Anyone know of a site that gives all of the syntax of relative addressing for URLS?
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My question is- is there any alternative that I can use to replace the '?' with another character for my dynamic URL. Or, is this the only way I can have this dynamic URL?
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if using static urls may help get my pages re-indexed, but I have had difficulty finding a way to do this with classic asp. Could anyone suggest a suitable method or advise possible reasons for my google disaster?
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There are urls like http://www.example.com/search.asp?it...6&third_id=Red
To get some keywords in there, I was thinking how to get a URL like this
http://www.example.com/Widgets/Special/Red/search.asp OR
http://www.example.com/special-red-widgets.html
convert automatically into the one above with ? and ids..
If this can work, I can have keyword rich URLs, which when clicked can turn into old ID urls, and fetch relevant content from the CMS.
I've heard about IIS redirect but am not sure how it works. Considering that the site is on a shared hosting, I wanted to know your opinion and best ways to achieve this.
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Just want to ask if anyone here has experience with doing printer friendly page. I have done a printer friendly page but the problem is if the line overflow, the printer friendly page will 'run' because my code count line by line, but by charactar or pixel.
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my data all can display.but when link it 2 printer friendly pages no data display
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What are the best approaches to create printer friendly pages in ASP web sites.? provide us help or links to useful artciles on this topic. Also can we avoid creating separate printer friendly pages and send the current page output to printer as the PRINT
button is clicked?
I have seen this functionality when we print our MCP transcript in MS certificastion site?
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