Question

The way I use to request parameters from URL is

if URL is- http://www.domain.ext/default.aspx?id=123&name=abc

In the above example we can request two parameter i.e. id and name from page default.aspx as string myid = Request["id"]; and string myname = Request["name"];

But in Facebook profile’s URL it shows something of this kind.

http://www.facebook.com/john.deo or http://www.facebook.com/madcoder

Where there wont be any page name and to define name with syntax. How to request the parameters (john.deo or madcoder) from URL in C#?

Answer 1

This can be achieved by adding rules to an htaccess file.

RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9_-]*)/$ index.php?name=$1

This rule will mean that if you type into the browser http://www.mydomain.co.uk/john you can get the value ‘john’ by requesting the ‘name’ parameter.