URL Rewritting - Program opinions

Anyone have any opinions of IISRewrite or ASPSpiderBait?

[chris_f]

Hi all,

I'm looking for an IIS URL rewritting tool that I can use with ASP.net. I've come across the following two tools:

1. ASPSpiderBait by Web Analyst
2. URLRewrite by Qwerksoft

I am in the process of testing them but I was wondering if anyone (was using/has used)^{* delete as appropriate ;)} them before. I am just looking for general opinions on them.

Thanks in advanced.
Chris.

[ukgimp]

Does

XQASP fall into that realm.

Not sure if it supports .NET

[chris_f]

Add these to the list

3. ISAPIrewrite
4. OpCode
5. lxbRewrite

>> Does XQASP fall into the realm?

Yes, thanks. Although their search engine hip is the biggest amount of bull I've ever glanced over ;).

Chris.

[rogerd]

ASPSpiderbait appears to produce some pretty weird URLs. I visited one of the showcase sites and the first dynamic page I encountered had a URL like this:

www.widget.com/widgets.asp_Q_SID_E_QCUSCAX0FAJQ0H8VZMYLGMX1ILYD5S85H8VL658L279158000

Not exactly a clean .htm URL...

[Sinner_G]

>Not exactly a clean .htm URL...

Anyone got an idea how SE spiders react to URLs like that?

[rogerd]

I didn't check to see what Google et al have indexed, but you could probably go to the software vendor's site, check their customer sites, and then do a domain search at Google or elsewhere.

Even if you find pages in the index, though, to my mind this looks like one of those "tool footprints" that might be better to avoid. If someone decides to use this as a spam tool, innocent bystanders may get zapped.

[Sinner_G]

Is there any other way to rewrite URLs on IIS? Something like mod_rewrite on Apache?

[Xoc]

Yes, in the IIS dialogs, you can take a URL on the site and redirect it to somewhere else with either a 301 or 302 error.