Handle requests for virtual URLs

[Emad Ibrahim]

I would like to handle URLs for folders that don't exist e.g.
www.mysite.com/123

123 is actually an ID of an article so I would like to trap the request and
extract the ID and display the article. If I do this now I get a 404 error
because 123 is non-existing folder.

This is kind of similar to the way sharepoint works... another non-asp.net
example is www.tinyurl.com

Any ideas?

-Emad

 

[Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]]

Hi Emad,

You might get some clues by looking at Listing 15.8 at this site:

http://www.samspublishing.com/dotnet_home/sampler/chapters/0672320681/ch15.html

 

[Emad Ibrahim]

Thanks but that won't work.

The problem is that the BeginRequest will only run if the URL is
www.mysite.com/123.aspx but will not run for www.mysite.com/123 because the
404 error is trapped in IIS before it gets to the ASP.NET engine. I need it
to run for www.mysite.com/123

-Emad