[thelist] Safe URL saga

[Pete Freitag]

If you make a request for /news.asp?article=23432 it will still work the
filter knows not to touch it.  I think what your getting at is a way to
change all your code to the new query string format.  I am sure you could
whip up a regex to do this.  But it's definitely worth doing, we have
increased traffic by over 1000% since making this change (however that's not
a scientific measure because we have also made a lot of other changes, and
added more content).

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Pete Freitag (pfreitag at cfdev.com)
CTO, CFDEV.COM
ColdFusion Developer Resources
http://www.cfdev.com/



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Ken Kogler
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 1:59 PM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: RE: [thelist] Safe URL saga


> I recently wrote an ISAPI filter to do search engine URL conversions.
> eg: /page.asp/x/1/y/2 translates into /page.asp?x=1&y=2

> You can find it here: http://www.cfdev.com/products/
> it's free and open source.

Looks like fun! I'll play with it on 127.0.0.1 tonight...

Is there a way to do this sort of thing in reverse? eg: the server notices a
request for /news.asp?article=24601, and redirects to
news.asp/article/24601? Or would that set up some kind of infinite loop?

I ask because I'm lazy and don't want to convert all my querystring links to
this new format...

-Ken

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