URL question

[John]

When I'm online and going to sites and click around the site, there are
times I see the URL looking like this?

www.sitename.com/?sessionId=1211212121212

and i see URL's like this alot for links, etc. How does this work and how is
it done?
I'm thinking of something like this for my site and I would like to keep the
page names hidden to the user but take them to the correct pages ..

 

[Guest]

This is generally referred to as "UrlRewriting". There's some support for
this built in to ASP.NET 2.0, and there are also some custom providers for
this for both 1.1 and 2.0 ASP.NET that you can find.
Peter

 

[Alan Silver]

This is generally referred to as "UrlRewriting". There's some support for
this built in to ASP.NET 2.0, and there are also some custom providers for
this for both 1.1 and 2.0 ASP.NET that you can find.

Beg to differ, but I don't think that's URL rewriting. This is a simple
use of query strings, in this case to hold a session ID.

URL rewriting is where you type (or click on a link to) something
like...

http://www.mydomain.com/FredSmith.aspx

and the server actually processes an URL like...

http://www.mydomain.com/ShowInfo.aspx?person=FredSmith