HttpContext.RewritePath Method Help!!! | Tech Off

DuNuNuBatman

I am having the hardest time getting this to work. I have been playing around with the HttpContext.RewritePath Method because I am trying to take this:
http://mywebsite.com/Redir/Default.aspx?userID=jdale and make it so when the browser requests this http://mywebsite.com/Redir/jdale it will return the query string userID... or something similar, I just can't have query strings in the url, it has to look like a directory request.
Anyway, one of the problems I am having is the HttpContext.RewritePath Method is extremelly poorly documented. (like most other things in the msdn documentation, but that is another rant)...
Anyway, here is the code I have in the Global.asax file.

void Application_Start(Object sender, EventArgs e)
{
HttpContext httpCont = HttpContext.Current;
httpCont.RewritePath("~/Redir", "", "");
}

You may be wondering why there isn't anything in the other arguments... well that is because I don't know how to use them.

Anyway, when the ~/Redir/Default.aspx page is requested as such: http://mywebsie.com/Redir/jdale
it will get the query string userid=jdale

AdamKinney
Agent of Change

If you don't need Postback functionality here's a quick fix for friendly urls.

DuNuNuBatman

actually, I do... What is happening behind the scenes is the user will register their domain... ie http://jdalepcfloans.com which will be a redirect to http://portal.com/Redir/jdale/
when the user request this page they are given a cookie based on the userid which in this case is jdale and redirected to that users content.

Anyway, I am basically trying to create a redirect to the individual employees personal websites, but if you guys have any other ideas, I am all ears. The problem I was running into was when doing dns redirects the query strings weren't being passed.

Maurits
AKA Matthew van Eerde

Make a custom 404 handler for the /Redir/ directory
Parse the username from the Request.RawUrl (see Adam's code)
Do a Response.Redirect to the page with the content

Not sure what you mean by "DNS Redirect" -- you mean, CNAME?

DuNuNuBatman

No, web direct. I am trying to redirect to specific folders, not just another domain name.

Edit: but I like your 404 idea, I will have to try that out, that seems like a very good solution. (AdamKinney, sorry if that was in your post, I only browsed, I didn't read it entirelly.)