Add string to the requested URL

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I have a route established like the return a particular blog entry when accessed It looks like this

www.mywebsite.com/100

However I want that when returning the page I also add the blog title to the URL For e.g. user may enter the above url but when he gets the page back the url must look like this:

www.mywebsite.com/100/My-Blog-Title

Just like it happens here on Stakoverflow that: I enter this URL

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/

And after the request is received the URL looks like this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-processing-a-sorted-array-faster-than-an-unsorted-array

How can achieve this in my MVC project? Can anyone please help.

Please also comment over the SEO friendliness while suggesting your preffered approach.

Thankyou

Take a look at this link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25259/how-does-stack-overflow-generate-its-seo-friendly-urls/25486#25486 — Lin, Jan 08 '14 at 20:35

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 08 '14 at 20:39

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It seems to be a simple redirection. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mvc.controller.redirecttoaction(v=vs.108).aspx

answered Jan 08 '14 at 20:39

cubitouch

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 08 '14 at 21:13

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You can use JavaScript for it.

Return the blog title stored in a JavaScript variable somewhere.

var blogTitle = "My-Blog-Title"

Read the blog title and read this link to change the url without redirecting.

answered Jan 08 '14 at 21:13

Yogesh

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Simon C · Answer 3 · 2014-01-09T04:04:47.903

If you open the Network tab in the Chrome Developer tools and load up the address (id only) to this question (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21005768/), you'll see that you get back a an HTTP 301 response - a permanent redirect to the friendly url (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21005768/add-string-to-the-requested-url/).

To respond with this in ASP.NET MVC you would do something like the following:

public ActionResult GetThingy(int id)
{
    var title = GetTitle(id);
    return RedirectPermanent(Url.Action("GetThingy", new { id = id, title = title} );
}

that would redirect to another action on the controller like:

public ActionResult GetThingy(int id, string title)
{
    //do your thing here
}

Add string to the requested URL

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