URL Rewriter and Reverse Proxy

Wow that is a long title. Recently I have been looking for quick posts that I can put out each day to keep my blog relevant and also so I don’t feel like I am slacking off too much. Today I want to post about a little known feature in my .NET URL Rewriter and Reverse Proxy (aka. Managed Fusion URL Rewriter) that I have developed in my spare time, mostly out of necessity for this blog and other projects I have worked on. Here is a quick run through of what it does. ...

I have upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.5. It is a very nice piece of software that the WordPress development team has done a great job on. Some of the new features include: Cleaner, faster, less cluttered dashboard Dashboard Widgets Multi-file upload with progress bar Bonus: EXIF extraction Search posts and pages Tag management Password strength meter Concurrent editing protection Few-click plugin upgrades Friendlier visual post editor Built-in galleries The upgrade this weekend turned up a Cookie bug in my URL Rewriter and Reverse Proxy software, that I use to host WordPress on my Windows 2003 server. There will be an updating to the URL Rewriter coming soon to MSDN Code and Codeplex as well as a release on my companies website.

Recently I have been using the ASP.NET MVC framework for a project at work. And one of the requirements was that certain data inputed in to the URL be tightly verified. I originally thought that data was verified by the type specified in the ControllerAction, however I came to find out that it wasn’t. So if you have say a page number and the user enters a letter in the URL the application just proceeds on it’s marry way. For example on the Kigg site: ...