Sure, ideally and if you're starting from scratch. The user already has the url being parsed by cf after the ".cfm/". So having IIS add the ".cfm" to a pretty url doesn't increase any load on cf and the additional load on IIS is so tiny it becomes insignificant.
So again I'd ask, why be weary? On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Dominic Watson < [email protected]> wrote: > > Scenario 1: > > -> request comes to IIS/Apache > -> URL gets rewritten > -> ColdFusion gets request and deals with as normal > > Scenario 2: > > -> request comes to IIS/Apache > -> URL gets rewritten > -> ColdFusion gets request > -> Some code parses url to extract variables > -> request carries on as normal > > I know which I prefer. Scenario 1 has less code to go wrong, less code > to maintain, less code to run. Scenario 2 adds no clear benefits IMO. > > Dominic > > On 7 October 2011 18:58, Michael Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Why would there be any additional code than what the OP already has to > > handle the current implementation? > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Wil Genovese <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> > >> Because you will still have to write CF code to translate the URL in > params > >> whereas doing the rewrite to tradition url params makes the values > available > >> in the URL scope with no extra code. > >> > >> > >> Wil Genovese > >> Sr. Web Application Developer/ > >> Systems Administrator > >> CF Webtools > >> www.cfwebtools.com > >> > >> [email protected] > >> www.trunkful.com > >> > >> On Oct 7, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Michael Grant wrote: > >> > >> > > >> >> > >> >> I would be weary of rewriting a pretty url to another pretty url. > >> >> > >> > > >> > Why? > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:348027 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
