How should I pass values to URL?

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Hi,

Please help in clarifying the following.

I have a project in which I am redirecting pages having Query String values in it. eg:

www.codeproject.com/product.aspx?bookid=5&bookname=23

Now, I want to implement URL Routing technique onto my project. So that the URL should look like the following:

www.codeproject/Product/5/23

I have created Route Definition in global.asax file.For the purpose of testing, When I run my project and change the old by myself URL from "href="http://www.codeproject.com/product.aspx?bookid=5&bookname=23 " to my required url " www.codeproject/Product/5/23 ". It works fine.

But My question is :

My old url still comes up ugly having Query String values in it. I want them to automatically appear like " www.codeproject/Product/5/23 " or " www.codeproject/Product/7/34 "

I don't want to change the url all the time. I want the url to appear in the above format automatically.

Do I need to change all the c# code of server.redirect to the required format now or their is any other technique which transforms the ugly url to good looking, meaningful and readable format.

many thanks,
Jass

Posted 10-May-11 12:41pm

Jass22

Updated 11-May-11 21:08pm

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AspDotNetDev 11-May-11 0:02am

I recommend just accept the ugly URL's in your development environment. You could create some redirect rules that check the Request.RawUrl and redirect to a clean URL if an ugly URL is detected, but that seems like more trouble than it's worth.

ZeeroC00l 12-May-11 2:29am

Please remove the <pre> tags from your Question. They are supposed to be used only with the Code Segmentes :)

Jass22 12-May-11 2:42am

ZeeroC00l , thank you for help.
Where is <pre> tag in my question plz?
Kind regards,

ZeeroC00l 12-May-11 3:04am

It should be somewhere before "Hi" in your Question. Other wise the question wont be displayed like what its being displayed here.

Jass22 12-May-11 3:25am

cheers

Jass22 12-May-11 2:32am

Dear responders..

Thank you very much for your time.

Well, before posting my question here,, I had a little idea that I can use URL rewriter but then I don't understand the use of URL Routing in asp.net 4.0??

Please explain how do we use "URL routing in asp.net " exactly in our project. I have read few online articles on it... which explain it with an example but my problem comes when I apply it on my existing ecommerce web app.

I am still confuse that, should I permanently pass values in the url as follows:

www.mywebsite.com/book/3/23

And this url rule will be checked against the route added in the route table.

Please ask if my question is not clear.

Cheers,

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yesotaso · Answer 1 · 2011-05-10T14:21:00

Solution 1

Checkout: IIS URL Rewrite[^].

Posted 10-May-11 14:21pm

yesotaso

Tom Bauto · Answer 2 · 2011-05-10T17:28:00

Solution 2

is this new project? you might want to try MVC instead, it has all that you wanted.

Posted 10-May-11 17:28pm

Tom Bauto

Christoph Keller · Answer 3 · 2011-05-10T20:56:00

Hello,

For this problem, I would recommend that you use a URL rewriter. It is quite easy, as you can see in my blog-post here: http://blog.dotnetcorner.ch/post/2011/03/30/How-to-Create-an-easy-and-flexible-URL-Rewriter.aspx[^].

The difficulty by using a URL Rewriter is, that you always need to know that you have two different URLs and that you never give out any internal (rewritten) URLs. So if you create a link, you have to concern about creating a "user-friendly" URL and not just write out the current Request.Url.

Hope this helps, happy coding! :)

Best regards,
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