URL Routing,cleaner urls without id

Question

HI All, I got a question about the URL Routing feature in .Net 4.0

My URL the I want to rewrite is : www.mysite.com/counties.aspx?id=12 I could make it work like that : www.mysite.com/12/egypt

But I want it to work without passing the id of the country in the query to look like this www.mysite.com/egypt

So ,I want to know how can I pass that parameter without showing it in the url.Another approach I thought about is to select the record using the country name instead of id and remove any spaces that could appear in country names. But I don’t like it, and I would like to make it work with the id.

Anyone can help?

Answer 1

Hey,

You would need to use Session, cache, or something like that; or pass egypt, and do a database lookup to get the 12 value back from the reference table.

HTH.

Answer 2

I had this problem before. I added a ShortUrl field to the Country table. Then passed that in as the querystring. www.mysite.com/counties.aspx?shortUrl=egypt. This way your url can look like this :www.mysite.com/egypt. Of course you need to change your query to get the the country based on the shortUrl rather than the id.