Chapter 7 - Server-Side Redirects

Tulsi · February 14th, 2012, 03:38 PM

Hi Imar,

I had a question from page 266. It says ..."a user may request a page like this http://www.domain.com/Cars/Volvo/850/T5". I was confused as to how the browser knows which page to request since there is no actual page listed in this URL.

Thank you.

Tulsi

Imar · February 14th, 2012, 04:15 PM

Hi there,

It depends.... One solution is to put a Default.aspx or other default document in the folder which then gets served. However, it's more common these days to do wild car mapping and run each request through .NET. That way the .NET run time can look at the request and determine how to handle it, which could be different for the technology (e.g. MVC could do it differently from Web Forms)

So, in all cases, the browser just submits the full URL and the sevrer (IIS) then determines what file to execute.

Cheers,

Imar

irProject · February 14th, 2012, 04:22 PM

Hi Tulsi

Actual Url is not "http://www.domain.com/Cars/Volvo/850/T5" but "it is displayed to user". you can use some techniques to do this. in asp.net MVC there is Routing tool, and in previous versions (Professional way) you can write your own HttpHandler and HttpModule that does it.

see
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/...g-with-ASP-NET

http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/as...r-asp.net-2.0/

and then

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archi...h-asp-net.aspx

I'm writing a new one that acts like MVC that you can define some actions (but in WebForms):

http:// yourUrl/post/list ====> calls List Method of Post.aspx page
http:// yourUrl/post/new ====> calls New Method of Post.aspx page
http:// yourUrl/post/title-of-post ====> calls Detail(title) Method of Post.aspx

I'll send it here when completed

Imar · February 14th, 2012, 04:37 PM

Quote:

Actual Url is not "http://www.domain.com/Cars/Volvo/850/T5" but "it is displayed to user".

Well, it *is* the actual URL, both to the user as to the server. However, it doesn't necessarily map to a physical document.....

Imar