URL rewriting (was RE: [thelist] your research on search engines and the sites you work on)
Chris W. Parker
cparker at swatgear.com
Wed Nov 6 17:23:01 CST 2002
> -----Original Message-----
> From: .jeff [mailto:jeff at members.evolt.org]
>
> chris,
>
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> > From: Chris W. Parker
> >
> > i think i ran into a problem with the ISAPI tool at
> > cfdev that ben mentioned with regards to the MS URLScan
> > tool. i don't think it liked the . in the URL. actually
> > wait... maybe it was that frontpage didn't like it. (one
> > more reason to do away with frontpage here at work.)
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> actually, i think the documentation that comes with cfdev's
> isapi filter
> specifically states that it can't handle dots in the
> slash-delimited query
> string.
>
> "Spider Safe URL will not be able to parse query
> strings that contain . (dots) in them, since it
> uses an algorithm designed for maximum efficency.
> But since the source code is included feel free
> to change the source code to include checking."
hmm... in that case i can't remember what the problem was.
> when it comes to url parsing, i currently do it all within coldfusion.
this is something i'm not familiar with as i do not use coldfusion.
> iis rewrite
> http://www.qwerksoft.com/products/iisrewrite/
yes i've seen this before. but i think i ignore it because it's not
free. ;) i'll have to look into more seriously this time.
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> > to anyone else, any tutorials on using the 404 page to
> > rewrite the url taking into account the proper response
> > codes?
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> well, if you're using an isapi filter to rewrite the url, i
> don't think
> you'll have to deal with the 404 page, custom errors, incorrect status
> codes, etc.
no really? i sort of figured. ;)
i asked about the 404 as an alternative approach.
chris.
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