Response.Headers and URLs

[Mike]

Is there a way to add a header to a page that will change what text the
browser displays in the address field?

For example, say I point my browser to
http://www.domain.com/request.asp?a=1&b=2.

I would like IIS to send back the content generated by the page
request.asp, but would like the address is in the browser to read
"http://www.domain.com/request/index.asp"

Is there any possible way to do this? It seems like this should be
possible.

 

[Dave Anderson]

Is there a way to add a header to a page that will change what
text the browser displays in the address field?

Yes. Send a 302 Status header and a new URI. In ASP, this is done with
Response.Redirect().

For example, say I point my browser to
http://www.domain.com/request.asp?a=1&b=2.

I would like IIS to send back the content generated by the page
request.asp, but would like the address is in the browser to read
"http://www.domain.com/request/index.asp"

Is there any possible way to do this? It seems like this should be
possible.

Of course it is possible, but why would you want to do this?



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[Adrienne Boswell]

Yes. Send a 302 Status header and a new URI. In ASP, this is done with
Response.Redirect().




Of course it is possible, but why would you want to do this?

To make a friendlier URI for users, search engines, etc.

To the OP, Google for ASP mod rewrite.

 

[Mike Brind]

Search engines don't care.

They do.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
http://www.google.com/webmasters/2.html

Although not necessarily for the example shown above. It only has a
couple of parameters.

 

[Adrienne Boswell]

They do.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
http://www.google.com/webmasters/2.html

Although not necessarily for the example shown above. It only has a
couple of parameters.

Additionally, the author might want to keep users from editing the
querystring themselves for security reasons.