Hi, I am currently in the process of searching an advanced URL rewrite technology for our application. The tool should be able to manipulate urls on directory level (eg localhost.cfm? SideID = start & user = xy to localhost-start-xy.html). The two alternative technologies I've found so far are: ISAP rewrite filter for IIS (http://www.helicontech.com/isapi_rewrite/) Apache mod_rewrite Now I would like to know which technology in terms of the following issues: Security Performance (must apply an large applications) Syntactic diversity (which technique is more powerful ) should be preferred. Have your any experiences or tips where I can learn more about it. (The pages I evaluated so fare lay too much emphasis on technical details of just plane promotion). Thanks for your help PS: Negative experiences would help me too.
We've made use of Linkfreeze from Helicontech on a few large scale sites. Performance wasn't affected persay, however we did run into some hurdles when it came to the URL delimiters. E.g. site.com/tones-by-50cent.html, problem was, if we had instances of param values with hyphen, we'd have to replace them with something else not to conflict with param delimiter, then again you can use other delimiters. If you're running IIS, I newest versions apparently have some URL rewrite capabilities built in. If you google it you can likely find some more info.
I've had good experience with ISAP rewrite so far. As far as that vs. mod_rewrite, I couldn't tell you. In regards to mod_rewrite... any open source stuff on the internet, you tend get quicker response time with your questions and more options available.