Emad Ibrahim - Latest Comments in Tricky Asp.net MVC URL Rewriting

Re: Tricky Asp.net MVC URL Rewriting

Emad — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:25:07 -0000

You are absolutely right but I have worked around that by forcing users to
use usernames with 6 or more characters and I also keep track of a list of
banned usernames in the config file e.g. administrator, account, etc...
It is not perfect but it works otherwise, you will be stuck with URLs that
look like /user/eibrahim instead of just /eibrahim

Re: Tricky Asp.net MVC URL Rewriting

Dan Atkinson — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:11:38 -0000

Have you thought about what happens if you decide to create a controller which happens to be the same as a user's name?!

I'm not sure this is a very future-proof way of working...

Re: Tricky Asp.net MVC URL Rewriting

Marco — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:14:52 -0000

@Net framework programmer,
Read this http://chriscavanagh.wordpr... for routing with Web Forms

Re: Tricky Asp.net MVC URL Rewriting

Emad Ibrahim — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:11:51 -0000

@Net framework programmer, I am not sure how to do that. I haven't used the routing library with non-MVC projects. Good luck and let us know what you find out.

Re: Tricky Asp.net MVC URL Rewriting

Emad Ibrahim — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:09:03 -0000

@Nik, you are absolutely right which is why I force user names to be 4 characters or longer. This way, worst-case-scenario, I can create a 3 letter controller. Not ideal, but a workaround.

Re: Tricky Asp.net MVC URL Rewriting

Net framework programmer — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:06:06 -0000

hello,

how i can route to main page without using MVC (We are using System.Web.Routing assembly)

Re: Tricky Asp.net MVC URL Rewriting

Nik — Sat, 24 May 2008 07:15:38 -0000

I've done exactly this for a project. It isnt ideal in that if you have a live system, and you subsequently need to add controllers, you need to check that *existing* users havent already used that controller name.