url structure

[Mark]

I ran accross a web site that included a url structured like the one below.
I use query string variables, but this looks different. Any ideas on how
this technique might be leveraged in general and the
advantages/disadvantages?

www.joeschmo.com/nav.aspx/page=/foo/bar.aspx

Thanks in advance.

Mark

 

[Patrice]

Are you sure this is not :
http://www.joeschmo.com/nav.aspx?page=/foo/bar.aspx

Alos, it could use URL rewriting (ie. intercepting the http request to
direct then to a real page ie. www.mysite.com/personal/scribe could behind
the scene be transformed to reach a real page such
www.mysite.com/personal.aspx taking scribe to do a search in a database and
to display my profile).

The result is similar (the url is used to convey values) though this could
be more friendly than www.mysite.com/personal.aspx?id=<som crptic id>

Patrice

 

[Curt_C [MVP]]

"/foo/bar.aspx" is just a QueryString() value, like anyother.
Most likely they are passing it to a Remote parser or doing a Redirect to
the value

 

[Alex Papadimoulis]

Mark,

I've seen that done before also. I believe the concept originated in PHP
where a lot of a lot of the ASP.NET constructs don't exist. I see no point
to a navigation mechanism like that in ASP.NET, with Usercontrols,
HTTPModules, etc. Did you see anything special it did? I think there's
definately a better way to do it in .NET.

-- Alex Papadimoulis

 

[Curt_C [MVP]]

FYI
www.site/dir/?val=something will use the default page as a handler, but as
you pointed out he should still need the ? in it to indicate the start of
the QueryString

 

[mikeb]

I ran accross a web site that included a url structured like the one below.
I use query string variables, but this looks different. Any ideas on how
this technique might be leveraged in general and the
advantages/disadvantages?

www.joeschmo.com/nav.aspx/page=/foo/bar.aspx

This is probably going through a URL re-writing module. See:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/urlrewriting.asp

for information on why you might want to do this and how.