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The document discusses five core parts of a URL including the domain name, port, query string, protocol, and match URL. It then covers additional server variables that can be accessed and describes three rules for naming HTTP headers including converting underscores to dashes and making letters lowercase.

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3 Url Rewrite For Developers m3 Url Parts Slides

The document discusses five core parts of a URL including the domain name, port, query string, protocol, and match URL. It then covers additional server variables that can be accessed and describes three rules for naming HTTP headers including converting underscores to dashes and making letters lowercase.

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URL Rewrite for Developers

URL Parts and Other Useful Server Variables

Scott Forsyth
weblogs.asp.net/owscott
@scottforsyth
[email protected]
In this Module

Five Core URL Parts

Discovery

HTTP Headers
Five Core URL Parts

Discovery

HTTP Headers
Five Core URL Parts

http(s)://www.localtest.me:80/events/article.aspx?id=123
Name Example Server Variable Notes
Domain Name www.localtest.me {HTTP_HOST} IP if visited by IP
Port 80 {SERVER_PORT} 80 or 443 if not shown
Query String id=123 {QUERY_STRING}
Protocol http {HTTPS} ‘on’ or ‘off’
Match URL events/article.aspx Match URL in Never a beginning
rule slash
URL (condition) /events/article.aspx {URL} Always a beginning
slash
Path with query /events/articles.aspx?id=1 {REQUEST_URI} Always a beginning
string 23 slash. Includes query
string.
Entire URL http://...article.aspx?id=12 {CACHE_URL} Includes the port,
3 even if not shown in
browser.
http(s)://www.localtest.me:80/events/article.aspx/postpath/?id=123

Server Variable Sample Data


{URL} /events/article.aspx
Match URL events/article.aspx/postpath
/
Five Core URL Parts

Discovery

HTTP Headers
View Server Variables

<%
For Each var As String in Request.ServerVariables
Response.Write(var & ": " & Request(var) & "<br>")
Next
%>
Additional Server Variables (Page 1 of 2)
Also see: http://tinyurl.com/servervars

Server Variable Sample Data


{HTTPS} Off
{HTTP_HOST} localtest.me
{SERVER_PORT} 80
{URL} /sub/vars.aspx
Match URL Sub/vars.aspx/postpath/321
{QUERY_STRING} id=123
{REQUEST_URI} /sub/vars.aspx/postpath/321?id=123
{SERVER_PORT_SECURE} 0
{REQUEST_METHOD} GET
{SERVER_ADDR} 192.168.1.20 (public website’s IP)
{REMOTE_ADDR} 10.0.0.20 (client’s IP)
{HTTP_REFERER} Referrer URL, such as www.bing.com
{REQUEST_FILENAME} c:\inetpub\localtest.me
{SERVER_ADDR} 127.0.0.1
Additional Server Variables (Page 2 of 2)

Server Variable Sample Data


{UNENCODED_URL} Usually the same as REQUEST_URI but can differ for different character encoding or some
unique paths. It’s the URL before IIS treatments. One way to see the difference is to use a
tool such as Fiddler and visit http://localtest.me/sub/../sub/. The UNENCODED_URL
variable contains the ../sub, whereas REQUEST_URI has the cleaned-up version. Since most
browsers also clean it up, you can’t easily test this in a web browser. The usage is limited
for URL Rewrite but more common for ISAPI extensions or some PHP applications.
{CACHE_URL} http://localtest.me:80/sub/vars.aspx/postpath/321?id=123
{PATH_INFO} /sub/vars.aspx/postpath/321
{CERT_ *} Many certificate-related fields for SSL
{HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE} en-US,en;q=0.8
{HTTP_COOKIE} Cookies from the browser
{REMOTE_USER} Server01\User01
{AUTH_TYPE} Negotiate (blank for Anonymous)
{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Mozilla/5.0 …
Five Core URL Parts

Discovery

HTTP Headers

{HTTP_HOST}
{HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING}
{HTTP_USER_AGENT}
Three Rules when Naming HTTP Headers

 Underscore (_) symbols are converted to dashs (-)


 All letters are converted to lowercase
 The HTTP_ prefix is removed
Where Are We?

Five Core URL Parts

Discovery

HTTP Headers

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