A more elegant solution to avoid ugly URL's with MCMS

re: A more elegant solution to avoid ugly URL's with MCMS

Alex — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 22:23:00 GMT

Hi Stefan!
We are moving to MSCMS and your blog is a treasure chest for us. Thanks a lot!

re: A more elegant solution to avoid ugly URL's with MCMS

Role — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 00:04:00 GMT

Hi Stefan, great stuff. I have implemented the HttpModule in the Web.config. Now, when I switch to edit site there is a javascript runtime error message '__CMS_PostbackForm' is undefined. Do you have a idea, what I have made wrong?

Thanks

re: A more elegant solution to avoid ugly URL's with MCMS

Stefan — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 01:38:00 GMT

This was a bug. :-(
When I wrote this blog and copied the code I missed to include the "\n" chars in the script blog. The code above should work now.

Sorry for that!

re: A more elegant solution to avoid ugly URL's with MCMS

Role — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 02:13:00 GMT

Ok. It works great now! thanks

re: A more elegant solution to avoid ugly URL's with MCMS

AndrewSeven — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 05:46:00 GMT

Hi Stefan,

I've been digging into this issue again due to some problems with pages/postings using IE on Macs.

I'd love it if you could have a look and tell me what you think. Especially if you have ideas about multiple root channels.

http://weblogs.asp.net/andrewseven/archive/2004/04/23/ElegantMCMSUrls.aspx

-Andrew

re: A more elegant solution to avoid ugly URL's with MCMS

Stefan — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 06:02:00 GMT

Hi Andrew,

I have commented your blog.

Cheers,
Stefan.

re: A more elegant solution to avoid ugly URL's with MCMS

Rooc — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:43:00 GMT

Hi Stefan,

This works nicely but I added the current querystring (when available) to the 'nice url', so when available I get the Request.QueryString["NRORIGINALURL"] instead of the ChannelItem.Url.

//////////////////////////////
//create the nice url
string niceurl = CmsHttpContext.Current.ChannelItem.Url;

if (x.Request.QueryString["NRORIGINALURL"] != null && x.Request.QueryString["NRORIGINALURL"].Length > 0)
{
niceurl = x.Request.QueryString["NRORIGINALURL"];
}

re: A more elegant solution to avoid ugly URL's with MCMS

Stefan — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:07:00 GMT

Hi Rooc,

thanks for the suggestion. Only problem: NRORIGINALURL only works with a specific hotfix on SP1a. So it would only be a solution for users which use this hotfix....

Cheers,
Stefan.

Solving the

Stefan Go — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 02:37:00 GMT

Solving the

Stefan Go — Sat, 01 May 2004 09:45:00 GMT

re: A more elegant solution to avoid ugly URL's with MCMS

Chinye — Tue, 04 May 2004 19:55:00 GMT

Please could you tell me where I insert the above code? Is it in the template .aspx file? It is urgent. Thanx

re: A more elegant solution to avoid ugly URL's with MCMS

James — Sat, 05 Jun 2004 04:17:00 GMT

I have encountered a problem with this where I seem to get random pieces of HTML appended on the end of the page after the </HTML> tag. Sometimes it happens when switching between edit mode & live mode, and sometimes just when navigating the site.

Any idea ?

re: A more elegant solution to avoid ugly URL's with MCMS

Stefan — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 18:47:00 GMT

Hi Chinye,

you need to create a new class library project and compile the above code into a DLL. Then add this DLL to the http module section of your web.config.

Cheers,
Stefan.

re: A more elegant solution to avoid ugly URL's with MCMS

Mike — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 00:28:00 GMT

Wouldn't the most elegant solution be to actually change the action value on the form to the url of the posting?

This technique is explained in the following MSDN article (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/urlrewriting.asp)

In short you create a customForm which inherits from HtmlForm and change the RenderAttributes method to correctly write the action tag. Unlike the article I set the action tag to the url of the posting.

Unfortunatly, this does not work because the Console SetPageForm method requires a HtmlForm. This method is private and I can't override it.

Do you agree that this would be the most elegant solution? Is there someother way to change the action attribute of the form tag?

re: A more elegant solution to avoid ugly URL's with MCMS

Stefan — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 00:35:00 GMT

not necessarily as it will require to use a different class for your forms. It is not transparent to your application.

re: A more elegant solution to avoid ugly URL's with MCMS

Chris — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 02:55:00 GMT

Hi Stefan,

We have implemented this module, along with the SSL module, and we still seem to get the ugly URL's when switching between secure / non-secure pages.

eg. if you go from https - http the URL is "ugly", but if you navigate to a subsequent http page, it will correct itself. The same is also true in reverse. (http - https - https)

any ideas?

BTW, your site is a great help...thanks

re: A more elegant solution to avoid ugly URL's with MCMS

Stefan — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 20:18:00 GMT

Hm... I did not test this scenario.
How do you switch between SSL and non SSL?
Using this approach:
http://blogs.msdn.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2004/04/22/118024.aspx

Cheers,
Stefan.

re: A more elegant solution to avoid ugly URL's with MCMS

Chris — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 01:46:00 GMT

Hi Stefan,

Yes, we are using your ssl module.

Chris

re: A more elegant solution to avoid ugly URL's with MCMS

Stefan — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:45:00 GMT

I have analyzed this problem. The reason is that that the CmsSslHttpModule does a redirect to the Url it receives with either http or https. This Url is already the internal Url as the request already has passed the MCMS ISAPI filter. This redirect will now return to the browser and show the ugly URL.
To correct this it would be necessary to ensure that the redirected URL from the CmsSslHttpModule is a friendly URL rather than the ugly one.
I will check if there is an easy solution for this and post it to the CmsSslHttpModule or as a separate post.

Update for the MCMS SSL Http Module

Stefan Go — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:47:00 GMT

Update for the MCMS SSL Http Module (last updated: July 3rd, 2004)

Stefan Go — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 14:58:00 GMT

re: A more elegant solution to avoid ugly URL's with MCMS

Randall — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:20:00 GMT

Hi Stefan,

Can you please suggest the steps to implement this code.
Means I didn't understand where to write the code?

Thanks for all your help.

Regards,
Randall

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