shortcut urls and asp.net

Hi all,

Sometimes you see "shorcut url's" advertised of the form
//servername/directory (easy to remember), that will lead you to
somewhere within the site (to a possibly more difficult url)

example: //www.microsoft.com/office leads to a different
url, specifically for Office.

question: is it possible using asp.net to define such shortcut url's
that will lead the visitor to the "real" page?
I suspect that there is a problem activating the .net system as there is no
aspx page referenced, so IIS doesn't know that it is supposed to
activate some asp.net function.

Hans KestingHi,
So far I could understand ,u want to redirect a request.
But, it has nothing todo with the ".net system".
Make a default page (set it as default content page on IIS) to your "easy to
remember" site,
which will redirect the client with a Javascript (or Response.Redirect
within cs if u need which will result the same) to your "difficult url".

Good Luck
Adnan

"Hans Kesting" <news.2.hansdk@.spamgourmet.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
> Sometimes you see "shorcut url's" advertised of the form
> //servername/directory (easy to remember), that will lead you to
> somewhere within the site (to a possibly more difficult url)
> example: //www.microsoft.com/office leads to a different
> url, specifically for Office.
> question: is it possible using asp.net to define such shortcut url's
> that will lead the visitor to the "real" page?
> I suspect that there is a problem activating the .net system as there is
no
> aspx page referenced, so IIS doesn't know that it is supposed to
> activate some asp.net function.
> Hans Kesting
Maybe I need to clarify a bit, see below

"Hans Kesting" <news.2.hansdk@.spamgourmet.com> wrote in message news:eRo$gZeUEHA.1356@.TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi all,
> Sometimes you see "shorcut url's" advertised of the form
> //servername/directory (easy to remember), that will lead you to
> somewhere within the site (to a possibly more difficult url)
> example: //www.microsoft.com/office leads to a different
> url, specifically for Office.
> question: is it possible using asp.net to define such shortcut url's
> that will lead the visitor to the "real" page?
> I suspect that there is a problem activating the .net system as there is no
> aspx page referenced, so IIS doesn't know that it is supposed to
> activate some asp.net function.
> Hans Kesting

Ultimately I want the webmaster to be able to go to some backoffice
page, select a newsitem (or whatever) and "publish" it under a shortcut url.
He can then say "go to http://mysite/mylatestnews" instead of
"go to http://mysite/dir/default.aspx?module=news&newsid=<some impossible guid>"
(where "mylatestnews" is NOT fixed, but a term he can specify himself)

Hans Kesting
Try :
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/030522.htm

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"Hans Kesting" <news.2.hansdk@.spamgourmet.com> a crit dans le message de
news:eRo$gZeUEHA.1356@.TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi all,
> Sometimes you see "shorcut url's" advertised of the form
> //servername/directory (easy to remember), that will lead you to
> somewhere within the site (to a possibly more difficult url)
> example: //www.microsoft.com/office leads to a different
> url, specifically for Office.
> question: is it possible using asp.net to define such shortcut url's
> that will lead the visitor to the "real" page?
> I suspect that there is a problem activating the .net system as there is
no
> aspx page referenced, so IIS doesn't know that it is supposed to
> activate some asp.net function.
> Hans Kesting
"Patrice" <nobody@.nowhere.com> wrote in message news:%23iq$iwsUEHA.3024@.TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Try :
> http://www.15seconds.com/issue/030522.htm

Thanks, it looks interesting. I will look into it.

Hans Kesting