Administering an ISP Installation

Munging URLs to Support Older Browsers

Another way to support older browsers is to embed the host header name in the URLs that are being sent to the Web server. On the server side, these embedded hosts are recognized and stripped out of the URL and used as a pseudo host header, prior to regular URL processing. For URL munging to work, each request from the browser must have a host header embedded. If it does not (as is the case with an initial request), a host menu will be sent to the client. For an example of URL munging, see the ISAPI filter Cookie Munger provided on the Resource Kit companion CD.