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Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 01/02/07 15:47
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed iam247@gmail.com writing in
news:1167745714.816706.128800@s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
Please don't top post - response moved
>
> Harlan Messinger wrote:
>
>> iam247@gmail.com wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I want to create a dynamic web page which is only created when the
>> > users browser requests it. eg
>> >
>> > www.mydomain.com/jim.wilson.aspx
>> > or www.mydomain.com/bill.smith.htm
>> >
>> > 2 questions:
>> >
>> > 1.
>> > I know that the use of Period / Stop / . is primarily to separate
>> > the page neme from the page type eg mypage.htm or mypage.asp and
>> > that the . is not normally used within a page name.
>> >
>> > The use of the Period / Stop / . works ok when I create a page in
>> > Frontpage eg test.page.htm but I have not tested it on a live
>> > server.
>> >
>> > Will the . work as described above?
>>
>> The part after the period is called the "extension". I'm not sure
>> what you mean by "working", but IIS will by default serve files with
>> any of the extensions .htm, .html, .asp, .aspx as text/html. You can
>> use ASP or ASP.NET (or any server-side app) to produce response of
>> other types, but then you have put
>>
>> Response.ContentType = "[media type]"
>>
>> in ASP, or the ASP.NET equivalent, into your code, at the top, before
>> the code has generated any content.
>>
>> But if the page you've created has ASP.NET code in it, and the
>> extension is .htm or .html, the code isn't going to be executed
>> either locally or on a server. You *can* configure IIS to treat .htm
>> or .html files as ASP.NET pages, but why would you do that instead of
>> just giving them an .aspx extension?
>>
>> > 2.
>> > Using ASP.net is it practical to create my requirements where the
>> > page is generated 'on the fly' ie Jim.Wilson's page is only
>> > generated when someone requests that specific url?
>>
>> I don't understand your question. The server doesn't send any page
>> until someone requests it. Further, any page that contains
>> server-side code is by definition being generated on the fly.
>>
>> >
>> > I know that some sites I visit with an invalid url return a default
>> > message with an index page (rather than a '404'), so I am assuming
>> > that good asp programming could also dynamically generate
>> > jim.wilson.aspx
>>
>> I really don't understand the connection here. You can configure IIS
>> to send a custom page in place of any of the default pages that it
>> sends for any of the error conditions from 401 on up, including 404.
>> How IIS is set up to respond to 404 errors has nothing to do with the
>> way you've built or named your pages.
>>
>> Because of this last part, I'm starting to think that you haven't
>> asked your real question--that this is a case where you've got a
>> problem, you're assuming that the solution takes a particular form,
>> and then you have questions about how to make that solution happens,
>> which isn't going to help you if that isn't the right solution in the
>> first place. What are you really trying to do? If the underlying
>> question is, "How do I change the way my server responds to a 404
>> error?", and you've noticed that IIS seems to require a file whose
>> name ends in .htm and doesn't work if you provide a file name that
>> ends in .aspx, the answer is that you are also given a choice between
>> "File" and "URL", and you have to change it from "File" to "URL" if
>> you want the response to come from an ASP.NET page instead of a
>> static HTML file.
>
>
> Hi
>
> Thanks for your reply. I obviously did not make myself clear. Lets try
> again.
>
> Forget about the 404 - it is only confusing the issue.
>
> GENERATE PAGE ON THE FLY
> I am aware that ASP generates the page on the fly, but I believe it is
> normally the page content which it generates on the fly - I want the
> page name genetated 'on the fly' as well as the content.
>
> eg I have a thousand members in my database but I do not want to have
> 1000 individual web pages on my server. Jane Smith should be able to
> give her friends the following url www.mysystem.com/janesmith.aspx -
> the page will only be generated when users request it. When the page
> is generated it will also add individual content relating to Jane
> Smith.
>
> Am I correct that this is a reasonaby straightforward procedure in
> ASP.net?
>
> USE OF PERIOD IN PAGE NAME
> I would like Jane Smith to be able to set up her user name on my
> system as jane.smith rather than janesmith. Assuming my 'on the fly'
> page generation above is possible I would like her page name to be
> jane.smith.aspx (ie with a period in the page name).
>
> Will she be able to give the following url to users,
> www.mysystem.com/jane.smith.aspx - and will users be able to access it
> (in other words - will the . in the page name cause any problems)?
>
> I trust I have been clearer this time.
>
> Thanks ColinK
No, the 404 is essential to what you are trying to do. If I type in
www.example.com/something.asp, the server at example.com looks to see
what page I want and tries to serve it up. If it does not exist (404),
then it can send me to a custom 404 page, or if it is set up to do so,
it can look at the page name requested, and generate something from
there.
As far as your naming conventions go, I am not sure of that (although I
doubt it can be done exactly in that way), and I would suggest you go to
a microsoft group, microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet is probably
what you need.
--
Adrienne Boswell at Home
Arbpen Web Site Design Services
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
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