How can I create short url in ASP.NET webform?

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I have created an event in global.asax file, to redirect to the url , I succeeded but I dont know why every time I write the short form of url and I redirect to the page the styles and icons get confused. For example the icon of the page has not loaded! But when I use the full form url everything is okay.

What I have tried:

<pre> void Application_BeginRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        string originalPath = HttpContext.Current.Request.Path.ToLower();
        if (originalPath.Contains("/employment"))
        {
            originalPath = "~/WebSites/Employment/Employment.aspx";
           
            Context.RewritePath(originalPath,"/employment",string.Empty,false);
           
            
        }

Posted 26-Mar-18 19:47pm

maysam_p82

Updated 27-Mar-18 1:12am

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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan 27-Mar-18 4:37am

What is the short form of the URL?

F-ES Sitecore 27-Mar-18 7:18am

You're probably using relative paths to your css files etc in the html. Use something like Page.ResolveUrl to generate the urls rather than hard-coding relative paths.

maysam_p82 27-Mar-18 8:56am

can u show me an example of it?

F-ES Sitecore 27-Mar-18 9:05am

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1874875/link-rel-stylesheet-type-text-css-href-resolveurl-css-test-css?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=google_rich_qa&utm_campaign=google_rich_qa

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Richard Deeming · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-27T01:13:00

The problem is relative URLs. The browser thinks it's looking at /employment, but the page thinks it's looking at /WebSites/Employement/Employement.aspx, so it generates URLs relative to that path. Because they're at different depths, the relative URLs generated on the server won't work on the client.

You typically need to rewrite the URL back to the original before the page renders. Something like this should work:

C#

private static readonly object OriginalUrlKey = new object();

void Application_BeginRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    string originalUrl = Context.Request.RawUrl;
    if (originalUrl.IndexOf("/employment", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) != -1)
    {
        context.Items[OriginalUrlKey] = originalUrl;
        
        string newPath = "~/WebSites/Employment/Employment.aspx";
        Context.RewritePath(newPath, false);
    }
}

void Application_PostMapRequestHandler(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    var originalUrl = Context.Items[OriginalUrlKey] as string;
    if (originalUrl == null) return;
    
    var page = Context.Handler as Page;
    if (page != null)
    {
        page.PreRenderComplete += Page_PreRenderComplete;
    }
    else
    {
        RestoreUrl(originalUrl);
    }
}

void Page_PreRenderComplete(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    var originalUrl = Context.Items[OriginalUrlKey] as string;
    if (originalUrl != null) RestoreUrl(originalUrl);
}

void RestoreUrl(string originalUrl)
{
    int index = originalUrl.IndexOf('?');
    if (index != -1) originalUrl = originalUrl.Remove(index);

    Context.RewritePath(originalUrl, false);
    Context.Items.Remove(OriginalUrlKey);
}

A better option would be to use the built-in routing options:
URL Routing | Microsoft Docs[^]