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A friendly URL is a website address that does not contain a query string or complex strings in the URI, instead relying on a human-readable, SEO-friendly resource path after the website authority (e.g. https://www.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/friendly-url).

A friendly URL is a website address that does not contain a query string, instead relying on a human-readable, SEO-friendly resource path after the website authority (e.g. https://www.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/friendly-url).

Most of the time it is achieved with the help of a Rewrite Engine, such as mod_rewrite for Apache or mod_rewrite for Lighttpd. Many content management frameworks have the ability to generate friendly URL's built in.

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How do I generate a Friendly URL in C#?

How can I go about generating a Friendly URL in C#? Currently I simple replace spaces with an underscore, but how would I go about generating URL's like Stack Overflow? For example how can I convert: How do I generate a Friendly URL in…
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URL Friendly Username in PHP?

On my PHP site, currently users login with an email address and a password. I would like to add a username as well, this username they g\set will be unique and they cannot change it. I am wondering how I can make this name have no spaces in it and…
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C# Byte[] to Url Friendly String

I'm working on a quick captcha generator for a simple site I'm putting together, and I'm hoping to pass an encrypted key in the url of the page. I could probably do this as a query string parameter easy enough, but I'm hoping not too (just because…
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Friendly URLs for ASP.NET

Python frameworks always provide ways to handle URLs that convey the data of the request in an elegant way, like for example http://somewhere.overtherainbow.com/userid/123424/ I want you to notice the ending path /userid/123424/ How do you do this…
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Generate SEO friendly URLs (slugs)

Definition From Wikipedia: A slug is the part of a URL which identifies a page using human-readable keywords. To make the URL easier for users to type, special characters are often removed or replaced as well. For instance, accented characters…
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Is there a url rewriting engine for Tomcat/Java?

How can we provide URL-Rewriting support for Tomcat/Java ? mod_rewrite provides this functionality for Apache and can modify URLs even before they reach the handler (e.g. PHP). Is there a similar tool in Java/Tomcat ? To be more specific we need…
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ASP.NET turn off FriendlyURLs mobile.master page

I would like to turn the Site.Mobile.Master page off completely. My site is responsive and i want mobile browsers to use the same master page. How can i do this in ASP.NET friendly URLs Thanks
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shortest encoding for Guid for use in a URL

Mads Kristensen got one down to 00amyWGct0y_ze4lIsj2Mw Can it go smaller than that?
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Pretty URLs in Google App Engine

I want to pass a parameter 'A1B2C3' to a GWT application based on Google App Engine. I do it like www.example.com/index.html?key=A1B2C3. Although it's working, I'd like to use pretty URLs. Is it possible to do URL rewriting on Google App Engine? I…
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rules for slugs and unicode

After researching a bit how the different way people slugify titles, I've noticed that it's often missing how to deal with non english titles. url encoding is very restrictive. See http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm So,…
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Enable human readable URL's in .htaccess

Preface: Yes this question seems like duplicated, and I found related questions, but answers from there didnt help to me. :( Hello, I want to add human readable URL's support for my PHP project. For now my URL quesry string looks…
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Customize FacesServlet to get rid of .xhtml extension

I have Login.xhtml and Home.xhtml. I configured the url pattern in web.xml as follows Faces Servlet /faces/* …
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Using Primary Key / ID Field as an identifier in a URL

What are the pros and cons of using your databases primary key as a URL identifier? As an example, http://localhost/post/view/13 - 13 being my primary key for my posts table. Some sites like reddit use what I assume is a unique id that is not the…
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Mode Rewrite; with/without trailing slash on end of url?

I basically tried this mode_rewrite rule below. It works with a slash on the end but I want it to work whether it has a trailing slash on the end or not. Basically I want it like this as some people see it as normal with a slash on the end and…
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$_GET and URL Rewriting for PHP

How does URL rewriting affect the $_GET parameter for PHP? Say I have a URL like http://example.com/index.php?p=contact and I use $_GET['p'] to tell index.php to serve the contact page. If I use a rewrite rule that converts the URL to…
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