URL rewriting is the process of altering request URLs based on one or more pre-defined rules. You can take advantage of the URL Rewriting Middleware in ASP.NET Core to work with URL redirection as ...

Over at Microsoft’s MSDN magazine, there’s a really interesting article by Bryan Sullivan suggesting a defense-in-depth strategy to protect Web sites and applications from cross-site scripting (XSS) ...

A Microsoft Web application security specialist is suggesting an offbeat defense-in-depth strategy to protect Web sites and applications from cross-site scripting (XSS) and cross-site request forgery ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Dany Lepage discusses the architectural ...

Google's John Mueller said it is fine using either root relative links (/google.html) vs relative links (google.html) as long as you are consistent on how you do your URL rewrites, Google can figure ...

The Yahoo Search Blog announced a new Site Explorer feature that enables webmasters to inform Yahoo about dynamic URLs that might be creating duplicate content issues or crawl barriers. The new ...

Bruce Clay was first up to the podium. What is a redirect? To display another web page for the web address that you are visiting. Why do people use redirects? If you rename or move a page, if you move ...

As web developers, we all care about URLs. When Google complained about URL rewriting, many balked. We may work late to get everything just so, but URLs don't matter a bit to most people. When I ask ...

Ryan Boudreaux discusses the importance of providing user-friendly URLs and offers tips about ways to handle web re-addressing for both static and dynamic URLs. How many times have you tried to ...