Topic awaiting preservation: URL rewritting for the IIS

I have been informed that for some reason or another the great people at microsoft did not include a rewritting engine into the IIS.

What I am looking for is a mod_rewrite type engine for the IIS. I have found a couple of different sites offering an ISAPI filter such as qwerksoft http://www.qwerksoft.com/products/iisrewrite/ or ISAPI rewrite http://www.isapirewrite.com/ or even OPUrl http://www.opcode.co.uk/components/opurl/installation.asp

What I am wondering is:

1) Are there any free Mod_Rewrite type engines for the IIS

2) If there are none, does anyone have a recommendation for a good comercial version

3) Does anyone have experience in writing ISAPI filters, are they hard to make? We have a programmer who would like to take a crack at it if we could justify his time vs the cost of the software. Hopefully publish it under and OpenSource (GPL) or free license.

Any information you have on this would be appreciated.

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Ini, thanks for the link.

The one from pstruh looks like it would act as a mod_rewrite type engine, except it appears rather basic. Replacing your ? and ampersan with a / , it might work ok, some testing would probabally be pertinent. I might need something more robust with regular expression support.

I am spending some more time looking at this... It doesn't surpress the file that is actually being called either.

I am looking for something similar to:
http://www.stonybrook.edu/stuaff/pageview.jsp?section=residents&page=contact
to show up as http://www.stonybrook.edu/stuaff/residents/contact.html

Thank again,
-Dan-



[This message has been edited by WarMage (edited 08-26-2002).]

I just found out that I might be able to do this on the servlet level and avoid IIS complications all togeather.