Many thanks to those who replied.

I went with the <location> strategy using a file called 'lookup' and 
using $ServerVariables( 'PATH_INFO' ) - works beautifully after 
getting a few extra ASP settings into the httpd.conf


Thanks again!

Ellers

At 11:25 AM -0700 1/6/02, Jim Helm wrote:
>How about just making /lookup the page, instead of /lookup/index.asp.
>You'll have to make sure /lookup is executed as an asp page ( <Location
>/lookup> ... </Location> ), but once you have that, you can just get the
>rest from the pathinfo piece of the uri. 
>
>Or you could just rename /lookup/index.asp to /lookup.asp and call it
>via /lookup.asp/event/1234.  Slightly less "pretty" but functionally the
>same, and it saves having to create a Location directive in your config
>file.
>
>Jim
>
>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: Ellers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>  Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 1:02 AM
>>  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>  Subject: "virtual urls"
>>
>>
>>  Hi All
>>
>>  This is only partly an ASP question, but any help appreciated:
>>
>>  If I have a page like this:
>>
>>     http://any.com/lookup/index.asp
>>
>>  I'd can easily request it like this:
>>
>    http://any.com/lookup/index.asp?event=1234
>
>But I'd really like to be able to request it like this:
>
>    http://any.com/lookup/event/1234


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