Url Rewriting via ISAPI Rewrite

written by Scott Watermasysk on Thursday, February 22 2007

Jeff Atwood highlights some of the bigger reasons for using an ISAPI Filter.

I had been contemplating using IIRF based on feedback to The Best ISAPI Filter, but in the end decided to stick with ISAPI_Rewrite. $99 is a very reasonable price for an entire server and in my experience it just seemed to work better. Some of the regular expression capabilities of IIRF seemed more powerful, but my needs are pretty simple and even though it was not free, I picked the tool which looks like it would give me the least number of headaches in the short run.

I am about 45 days into using ISAPI_Rewrite and so far I have had zero issues and highly recommend it. I need to clean up my .ini file, but as we approach the release of Community Server 2007 I will try to get it published (and hopefully a similar file for the forums as well).

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  • Bryant Likes on on 2.22.2007 at 7:34 PM

    Bryant Likes avatar

    I think you mean Atwood. :)

  • Scott Watermasysk on on 2.22.2007 at 7:42 PM

    Scott Watermasysk avatar

    Hi Bryant,

    Thanks for the heads up. I updated the post.

    Thanks

  • Al Pascual on on 2.23.2007 at 8:04 AM

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    Scott, why are you using that product instead of an HttpModule or HttpHandler?

  • Scott Watermasysk on on 2.24.2007 at 2:17 PM

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    Hi Al,

    A couple of reasons:

    1. An ISAPI Filter can rewrite any url, not just asp.net

    2. An ISAPI Filter does not require you map all requests to the asp.net isapi

    3. It just works.

    HTH,

    Scott

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