Dynamic or Static Pages in ASP

You can use a custom 404 page.

Lets say the you send a visitor to http://your_url/xyz

<%
str_query = Request.ServerVariables("QUERY_STRING")
str_search_string = replace(str_query,"404;" & your_url & ":80/","")
folder_array = split(str_search_string,"/")
no_arrays = ubound(folder_array)
%>

Then folder_array(0) = "xyz"

You send a visitor to http://your_url/xyz/abc

Then folder_array(0) = "xyz"
Then folder_array(1) = "abc"

Obviously you have to put some checking in place that makes sure the
folders are correct, otherwise send a 404 header, so if all the folders
have a similar format, say id_###### and the result doesn't contain
"id_" you return a 404 error

I just love this group.

Endless such comments, but never mentions a solution.


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"Borek" <m.borkowski (AT) delete (DOT) chembuddy.these.com.parts> wrote

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:43:59 +0200, z <news01.web (AT) mailnull (DOT) com> wrote:

Only if you have no clue how to code it properly. (repeated several times)

Thank you for ASP page.
One question arises though.
If crawlers go to one url such as website.com/page/xyz and then they
are redirected by ASP to website.com/page.asp?id=xyz, would those
crawlers realize there is something fishy?.. and not index the page?

They are not redirected, the url website.com/page/xyz doesn't change,
instead the custom written 404 page creates a page depeneding on the
variables in the url path, e.g. "xyz" just as the the "page.asp?id=xyz"
would do with the variable "id"

vunet.us (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Thank you for ASP page.
One question arises though.
If crawlers go to one url such as website.com/page/xyz and then they
are redirected by ASP to website.com/page.asp?id=xyz, would those
crawlers realize there is something fishy?.. and not index the page?