How do i do this?

how do i do this neat trick like at www.msn.com

example http://microsoft/0/0/ and it loads up to that exact page. how do they do this in asp james yang i know you might know so help......

Hey asp_man, I'm not quite sure exactly what you're getting at. When I enter in the url on msn like "www.msn.ca/0/0 all I see is an error page. It produces no valuable results. Could you provide more details about what it is you want?

lol Im not so sure man...I know its supported by the web server though ... and I know mitchelle knows how to do this in IIS so im in process of getting him to tell me... ))

OK,
Well basically in IIS you need to change the error documents page for your virtual directory. To do this, fire up MMC and load the IIS snap-in. Right click on your site then properties. Goto the custom errors tab and look for the 404 Default "Not Found" error.

Edit it and change the message type to URL and point it to an ASP page such as /404.asp. You need to add some code like this to 404.asp:

<%

qs = Request.QueryString
qsArray = split(qs, ";")
qsParams = qsArray(1)

Response.Write qsParams

%>

Basically the qsParams variable will now have the URL and the parameters that you can extract from and use select case to work out what you want to do with them, etc

I think he is talking about the exact url (http://www.website.com/user/123) instead of http://www.website.com/index.asp?myuserid=123.

In aspx (asp.net), you can set this feature (vanity url) in global.asax. I learn this from the book of ASP.net unleashed, by http://www.samspublishing.com.

In Unix, I think you need to set certain thing (I am not familiar with Unix) which I think that myth can help you out.