Ultimate URL rewriting engine

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According to this guys here:

http://tinyurl.com/ygjxry

"You can use different URL styles:
* http://www.myweb.com/products/nokia
* http://www.myweb.com/products/nokia.aspx
* http://www.myweb.com/products/nokia.htm
* ... or virtually any other extension
The URL rewriting engine in Kentico CMS, unlike common rewriting
engines, doesn't require manual configuration of your server which
allows you to use friendly URLs even on a hosted server."

How do they do it ? Last time I investigated on this and read a lot of
articles, there were no posiblity to do this. I was doing a small
application and ended doing an HttpHandler, but I had to still using
the .aspx extension, and there were no hackable directories.
There's another CMS, AxCMS that does allow fancy extensions, but you
must go to IIS and configure it manually, which is not possible on a
shared hosting.

Does anybody have any idea about the techniques used here ?
 
Hi,

According to this guys here:

http://tinyurl.com/ygjxry

"You can use different URL styles:
* http://www.myweb.com/products/nokia
* http://www.myweb.com/products/nokia.aspx
* http://www.myweb.com/products/nokia.htm
* ... or virtually any other extension
The URL rewriting engine in Kentico CMS, unlike common rewriting
engines, doesn't require manual configuration of your server which
allows you to use friendly URLs even on a hosted server."

How do they do it ? Last time I investigated on this and read a lot of
articles, there were no posiblity to do this. I was doing a small
application and ended doing an HttpHandler, but I had to still using
the .aspx extension, and there were no hackable directories.
There's another CMS, AxCMS that does allow fancy extensions, but you
must go to IIS and configure it manually, which is not possible on a
shared hosting.

Does anybody have any idea about the techniques used here ?
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I suspect they use a ISAPI filter. The advantage of ISAPI filters is
that they are not part of .NET, so they get the whole traffic and can
filter (or in that case modify) it. HttpHandlers are only active for
..NET content, which is why you cannot use just any extension.

HTH,
Laurent
 
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