404 Redirect Question

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From: DanTg (dan_at_danceholidays.com)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: 29 Nov 2004 03:44:01 -0800

Hi all,

I want to build a custom 404 error page that using asp will
dynalically build the page.

Here is my problem. I am building a directoy website which has over
3000 categories. I do not want to create a category page for each one
so I though I would try and cheat a little and use the 404 to make it
look as if the page exists and put out the relevant information.

The website is:
http://www.pricerequest.co.uk/

The page I am linking to (which does not really exist) is:
http://www.pricerequest.co.uk/a/Cars_Motorbikes.html

The page you see when you go to
http://www.pricerequest.co.uk/a/Cars_Motorbikes.html is actually the
404 page.

So what I want it to do is the 404 page ASP code will look at the page
name 'Cars_Motorbikes' search the categories database table and pull
out the category information.

So in IIS I tried setting the Custom Errors 404 Message Type as File
but IIS does not or I can't get this page to process it as ASP to then
dynamically build the page.

The 2nd thing I tried was setting the Message Type as URL. This works
but the URL string looks like:

http://www.pricerequest.co.uk/a/category.asp?404;http://www.pricerequest.co.uk/a/Cars_Motorbikes.html

When really I want the URL to look like:

http://www.pricerequest.co.uk/a/Cars_Motorbikes.html

Does any one know how I can do this in IIS? Is there any external
filters, executables that can make IIS do this?

Thanks,

Dan Chapman

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