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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