Asp.net 3.5 sp1 routing

Question

I am using url routing feature ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd347546.aspx ) in my asp.net 3.5 sp1 website. I am wondering that is it same as 301 redirects? what I want is a 301 redirects from my old asp pages to new aspx pages.

Answer 1

No, you cannot use the routing feature for asp classic pages redirect. You could configure iis to do this.

Answer 2

The routing you pointed to is a mapping to a page that handles the request. Look at the example:

RouteTable.Routes.Add(
    "Recipe",
    new Route("recipe/{name}", 
              new RecipeRouteHandler(
                  "~/WebForms/RecipeDisplay.aspx")));

What this sets up is taking a URI like http://mysite.com/recipe/grits and routes it to http://mysite.com/WebForms/RecipeDisplay.aspx?name=grits (or similar). This is done server side, not client side, like a 301.

If you want to redirect a user, you need to map that in the server.