Comments on: IIS URL Rewrite 2.0 – Release to Web

By: Andreas Andreou

Andreas Andreou — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:06:29 +0000

thx ruslany
I couldn’t find any related documentation online – even the xml schema for the rules would have helped! So, your help is much appreciated.

By: ruslany

ruslany — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:21:15 +0000

Hi Andreas,

Yes, it is possible. In the subfolder web.config file add the elements at the beginning of the section. That way all the rules from the parent level will be removed and then you can add your subfolder rules.

By: Andreas Andreou

Andreas Andreou — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:07:09 +0000

Hi,
do you know if it’s possible for a rule in a subfolder (i.e. defined in somefolder/web.config) to take precedence over a rule defined in the root folder (i.e. in web.config)?

By: ruslany

ruslany — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:44:59 +0000

Hi Wright,

One option I can think of is not to use global rules for reverse proxy. The reverse proxy can be implemented with normal distributed rules in web.config files.

If you do that then I think you should be able to write an HTTP module that gets to the request before URL rewrite.

By: ruslany

ruslany — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:42:15 +0000

Hi Raman,

I think that for the response headers to show content-encoding, the request should contain header “accept-encoding”, e.g.

Accept-Encoding: compress, gzip

You can try to make request with this header by using WFetch.

By: Raman

Raman — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:44:34 +0000

I have static compression enabled on my server. There are no outbound rules. There are only redirect rules. Like data.ramansingla.com/index.html is redirected to http://www.ramansingla.com/data/index.html

I checked the returned headers. Those don’t show content-encoding: gzip. Should I do something differently?

By: Wright

Wright — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:18:41 +0000

Help… I have been researching this for days…

In an earlier response to a blog you wrote: “URL rewriter processes global rules during PreBeginRequest pipeline stage.”

I need to use the reverse proxy function of URL Rewriter, however at the same time I need to capture the in-comming request, inspect, and occasionally ALTER the content. How can I get infront of the URL Rewriter, alter some selected content, and then pass the altered content to the URL Rewriter / Reverse Proxy processes?

(I seem to have full ability to alter the response returning to the browser using the IHttpModule interface. The request content is already processed by the URL Rewriter before it is available to me.)

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Bill

By: ruslany

ruslany — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:42:25 +0000

Hi MyBestGuess. The rule looks correct. I would suggest to enable Failed Request Tracing and check if the rule gets executed at all.

By: MyBestGuess

MyBestGuess — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:41:33 +0000

Sorry, the code didn’t show. Here is my code that I am using.

rewrite
rules
rule name=”Redirect to Https” stopProcessing=”true”
match url=”(.*)”
conditions
add input=”{HTTPS}” pattern=”^OFF$”
conditions
action type=”Redirect” url=”https://{HTTP_HOST}/{URL}” redirectType=”SeeOther”
rule
rules
rewrite

By: MyBestGuess

MyBestGuess — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:38:52 +0000

Hello, I am using URL rewrite 2.0 to handle HTTPS redirects. I have the following code in my web.config setup through IIS and the website doesn't get redirected or even throw a site required SSL error. It just loads like it normally would. I have made sure all SSL requirements have been made. Please help and let me know what I am doing wrong.