Rerouting http traffic in ASP.NET application

Question

I would like to re-route traffic in HTTP request from one server to another in an ASP.NET web site. I have been looking into trying to do this using an http module or http handler. Are these viable options for my case or does anyone have a better recommendation? This application is using .NET 4.0 Framework and is host on IIS6.

Take a look at using an HTTPModule with http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.httpcontext.rewritepath(v=vs.100).aspx — Timothy Randall, Apr 15 '13 at 19:58

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 15 '13 at 20:10

In addition to the comment above, I wanted to provide a small snippet of code. You should be able to do this in your HTTPModule with Response.Redirect. I am not 100% certain but I believe that the RewritePath method may throw a platform not supported exception on IIS6. IIS6 definitely support Response.Redirect fortunately.

Go ahead a handler for begin request:

{
      context.BeginRequest += new EventHandler(MyBeginRequestMethod);
}

Then in your begin request method:

HttpApplication application = (HttpApplication)sender;
HttpContext context = application.Context;

if(context.Request.FilePath.Contains("someresource"))
{
     context.Response.Redirect("http://www.google.com");
}

Obviously you will be able to do some more comprehensive look-up of content and a more complete redirect this way.

Rerouting http traffic in ASP.NET application

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