Yes that's possible to do. Probably the best way to do this is with your web server, on Apache with a module such as mod_rewrite, or in IIS with an ISAPI filter. I have written an ISAPI filter for search engine safe url conversion would convert to:
http://www.somedomain.com/dir/foo.cfm/uID/12345 You can download filter and the source code here http://www.cfdev.com/products/ (Spider Safe URL) and them modify it to suit your needs. Another option might be to set a custom 404 page in CF administrator, and then use that to route requests to the appropriate CF template. Also if your worried about people removing the uID, why not just add at the top of your page: <cfif NOT IsDefined("url.uID") OR NOT Len(url.uID)> Hey you didn't give me a uid. <cfabort> </cfif> then use <cfparam> or <cfqueryparam> to ensure that they are passing an integer. _____________________________________________ Pete Freitag CTO, CFDEV.COM http://www.cfdev.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Mark Leder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 3:11 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: URL Strings Hi All, Don't even know if this is possible, but is there a way to take the following string: http://www.somedomain.com/dir/foo.cfm?uID=12345 And make it look like: Http://www.somedomain.com/dir/mylink.cfm I want to be able to hide the real URL string, so someone can't alter it. But I need to UID passed someway so that it can be used in a db query. Using encrypt/decrypt still doesn't prevent the listing after the ? From being maliciously removed. Mark ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
