Carlos Mendes - 401 - Sep 20, 2014

ServiceStack Routing
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Hi,

I’m using SS Razor plugin to serve pages.

I would like to use “Vanity URLs” (I’m not sure if this is the correct term).

So using a StackOverflow url as an example I want to include some text with the question title in the URL:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9699083/servicestack-vs-asp-net-web-api

What they seem to be doing is a 301 redirect to the full URL above if we use the URL without the http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9699083

Any suggestions on how to implement this? Are there any drawbacks?

Thanks in advance

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Declare multiple routes for your service, 1 with the vanity url and 1 without. Then in your service just check that the Vanity path is populated, if not redirect by returning HttpResult.Redirect().

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Carlos Mendes:

Thanks.

I use the UrlExtensions to generate links. In this scenario, with two different routes for the same DTO how would it work?

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Try it and see, it should use the best matching route by default.

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Carlos Mendes:

Thks!