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Asked: 2026-05-10T21:55:32+00:00

I am looking in to ways to enable a site to basically have something

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I am looking in to ways to enable a site to basically have something like:

http://mysite.com/en-US/index.aspx`

Where the ‘en-US’ can vary by culture..

This culture in the URL will then basically set the CurrentUICulture for the application..

Basically, we currently have a page where the user explicitly clicks it, but some are favouriting past that, and it is causing some issues..

I know this sort of thing is easily done in ASP.NET MVC, but how about those of us still working in 2.0? Can you guys in all your wisdom offer any suggestions/pointers/ANYTHING that may get me started? This is new to me 🙂

I’m sure there must be some way to pick up the request and set/bounce as appropriate.. HttpModule maybe?

Update

Just had a thought.. May be best to create VirtDirs in IIS and then pull the appropriate part from the Requested URL and set the culture in InitializeCulture?

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  1. Is storing the choice in a cookie out of the question? Nice of you to give the users a choice but why not just default to the users client/web browser settings?

    If they bookmark a page and have lost the cookie you could fall back to the default and if that is a culture you do not support then fallback further to en-US.

    If you want to keep your solution you could use a rewrite engine. I’ve used http://www.managedfusion.com/products/url-rewriter/ in the past. For a list of engines see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewrite_engine#IIS

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