Does IIS Support URL Rewriting? URL Rewriting allows to redirect or change in url before they processed by server, it also allow make url more readable.
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Does IIS Support URL Rewriting? URL Rewriting allows to redirect or change in url before they processed by server, it also allow make url more readable.
Microsoft URL Rewrite Module 2.0 for IIS 7 Beta is an incremental release that includes all the features from version 1.1.The URL redirector intercepts the incoming request, replaces "r-" with "cgi-bin/redir.pl?", it passes the result on to IIS for processing.adds support for outbound response rewriting. IIS 7.0 comes with built in url rewriting module so you don’t need to write more code for url rewriting module. URL Rewriting module will Modify the links in the HTML markup generated by a web application behind a reverse proxy.
The Microsoft URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 provides flexible rules-based rewrite engine that can be used to perform broad spectrum of URL manipulation tasks, including, but not limited to:
Enabling user friendly and search engine friendly URL with dynamic web applications;
Rewriting URL’s based on HTTP headers and server variables;
Web site content handling;
Controlling access to web site content based on URL segments or request metadata.
Download Microsoft URL Rewrite Module 1.1 for IIS 7
Some URL re-writing on IIS can be done with with host headers, but actually URL rewriting on Apache is much more powerfull so it will help if you specify exactly what you want to re-write.You can roll your own rewriter using IIS and ASP.NET. This involves mapping all requests in IIS through the ASP.NET ISAPI module, and then coding up an HTTP Handler to route those requests as you require.