Introduction
URL Mapping is the new feature provided in ASP.NET 2.0. The URL
mapping technique helps you to map a specified URL with another URL.
To make you clearer, let's say you have a page called Homepage.aspx in
your site to access home page and all your users are using that page
to access home page of your site. But due to some reason you changed
your home page to OriginalHome.aspx, then instead of informing them
about the change, by using of URL Mapping technique you can map to new
page.
This can be implemented in configuration section.
Syntax:
<urlMappings enabled="[true|false]">
<add url="String"
mappedUrl="String"/>
</urlMappings>
Some of the advantages:
1. If your client book marks to a page, and you had a situation of
removing that page and adding other page in that place, then instead
of letting your client know about the page change, by using of
urlMappings you can solve your business case.
2. If you have a big and complicated URL, and you don't want to give
that to user, then you can give a simple URL to the user and you can
map the simple URL with the original URL using urlMappings.
3. Menu control handing can be easy by this. The best example for this
is asp.net site.
4. Security also involved in this (Since user is not able to see the
real page name on the URL. It's kind of encaptulation!)
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| Author: Tony John 13 Mar 2007 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 0 |
We found the orginal artcle @ http://www.w3coder.com/alphatalks/v2urlmap.aspx
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