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HttpModule to Perform URL Rewriting
An alternative approach to the above Request.PathInfo technique would be to take advantage of the HttpContext.RewritePath() method that ASP.NET provides. This method allows a developer to dynamically rewrite the processing path of an incoming URL, and for ASP.NET to then continue executing the request using the newly re-written path.
For example, we could choose to expose the following URLs to the public:
http://www.store.com/products/Books.aspx http://www.store.com/products/DVDs.aspx http://www.store.com/products/CDs.aspx
This looks to the outside world like there are three separate pages on the site (and will look great to a search crawler). By using the HttpContext.RewritePath() method we can dynamically re-write the incoming URLs when they first reach the server to instead call a single Products.aspx page that takes the category name as a Querystring or PathInfo parameter instead. For example, we could use an an Application_BeginRequest event in Global.asax like so to do this:
void Application_BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e) {
string fullOrigionalpath = Request.Url.ToString(); if (fullOrigionalpath.Contains("/Products/Books.aspx")) { Context.RewritePath("/Products.aspx?Category=Books"); } else if (fullOrigionalpath.Contains("/Products/DVDs.aspx")) { Context.RewritePath("/Products.aspx?Category=DVDs"); } }
The downside of manually writing code like above is that it can be tedious and error prone. Rather than do it yourself, I'd recommend using one of the already built HttpModules available on the web for free to perform this work for you. Here a few free ones that you can download and use today:
These modules allow you to declaratively express matching rules within your application's web.config file. For example, to use the UrlRewriter.Net module within your application's web.config file to map the above URLs to a single Products.aspx page, we could simply add this web.config file to our application (no code is required):
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<configSections> <section name="rewriter" requirePermission="false" type="Intelligencia.UrlRewriter.Configuration.RewriterConfigurationSectionHandler, Intelligencia.UrlRewriter" /> </configSections> <system.web> <httpModules> <add name="UrlRewriter" type="Intelligencia.UrlRewriter.RewriterHttpModule, Intelligencia.UrlRewriter"/> </httpModules> </system.web>
<rewriter> <rewrite url="~/products/books.aspx" to="~/products.aspx?category=books" /> <rewrite url="~/products/CDs.aspx" to="~/products.aspx?category=CDs" /> <rewrite url="~/products/DVDs.aspx" to="~/products.aspx?category=DVDs" /> </rewriter> </configuration>
The HttpModule URL rewriters above also add support for regular expression and URL pattern matching (to avoid you having to hard-code every URL in your web.config file). So instead of hard-coding the category list, you could re-write the rules like below to dynamically pull the category from the URL for any "/products/[category].aspx" combination:
<rewriter> <rewrite url="~/products/(.+).aspx" to="~/products.aspx?category=$1" /> </rewriter>
This makes your code much cleaner and super extensible.
Sample Download: A sample application that I've built that shows using this technique with the UrlRewriter.Net module can be downloaded here.
What is nice about this sample and technique is that no server configuration changes are required in order to deploy an ASP.NET application using this approach. It will also work fine in a medium trust shared hosting environment (just ftp/xcopy to the remote server and you are good to go - no installation required).
Approach 3: Using an HttpModule to Perform Extension-Less URL Rewriting with IIS7
The above HttpModule approach works great for scenarios where the URL you are re-writing has a .aspx extension, or another file extension that is configured to be processed by ASP.NET. When you do this no custom server configuration is required - you can just copy your web application up to a remote server and it will work fine.
There are times, though, when you want the URL to re-write to either have a non-ASP.NET file extension (for example: .jpg, .gif, or .htm) or no file-extension at all. For example, we might want to expose these URLs as our public catalog pages (note they have no .aspx extension):
http://www.store.com/products/Books http://www.store.com/products/DVDs http://www.store.com/products/CDs
With IIS5 and IIS6, processing the above URLs using ASP.NET is not super easy. IIS 5/6 makes it hard to perform URL rewriting on these types of URLs within ISAPI Extensions (which is how ASP.NET is implemented). Instead you need to perform the rewriting earlier in the IIS request pipeline using an ISAPI Filter. I'll show how to-do this on IIS5/6 in the Approach 4 section below.
The good news, though, is that IIS 7.0 makes handling these types of scenarios super easy. You can now have an HttpModule execute anywhere within the IIS request pipeline - which means you can use the URLRewriter module above to process and rewrite extension-less URLs (or even URLs with a .asp, .php, or .jsp extension). Below is how you would configure this with IIS7:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<configSections> <section name="rewriter" requirePermission="false" type="Intelligencia.UrlRewriter.Configuration.RewriterConfigurationSectionHandler, Intelligencia.UrlRewriter" /> </configSections> <system.web> <httpModules> <add name="UrlRewriter" type="Intelligencia.UrlRewriter.RewriterHttpModule, Intelligencia.UrlRewriter" /> </httpModules> </system.web>
<system.webServer>
<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"> <add name="UrlRewriter" type="Intelligencia.UrlRewriter.RewriterHttpModule" /> </modules>
<validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false" />
</system.webServer>
<rewriter> <rewrite url="~/products/(.+)" to="~/products.aspx?category=$1" /> </rewriter> </configuration>
Note the "runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests" attribute that is set to true on the <modules> section within <system.webServer>. This will ensure that the UrlRewriter.Net module from Intelligencia, which was written before IIS7 shipped, will be called and have a chance to re-write all URL requests to the server (including for folders). What is really cool about the above web.config file is that:
1) It will work on any IIS 7.0 machine. You don't need an administrator to enable anything on the remote host. It will also work in medium trust shared hosting scenarios.
2) Because I've configured the UrlRewriter in both the <httpModules> and IIS7 <modules> section, I can use the same URL Rewriting rules for both the built-in VS web-server (aka Cassini) as well as on IIS7. Both fully support extension-less URLRewriting. This makes testing and development really easy.
IIS 7.0 server will ship later this year as part of Windows Longhorn Server, and will support a go-live license with the Beta3 release in a few weeks. Because of all the new hosting features that have been added to IIS7, we expect hosters to start aggressively offering IIS7 accounts relatively quickly - which means you should be able to start to take advantage of the above extension-less rewriting support soon. We'll also be shipping a Microsoft supported URL-Rewriting module in the IIS7 RTM timeframe that will be available for free as well that you'll be able to use on IIS7, and which will provide nice support for advanced re-writing scenarios for all content on your web-server.
Sample Download: A sample application that I've built that shows using this extension-less URL technique with IIS7 and the UrlRewriter.Net module can be downloaded here.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/dnn2url_rewrite.aspx
Best Luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sujit. |