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POCan ASP.NET Routing be used to create "clean" URLs for .ashx (IHttpHander) handlers?
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copied!<p>I have some REST services using plain old <code>IHttpHandler</code>s. I'd like to generate cleaner URLs, so that I don't have the .ashx in the path. Is there a way to use ASP.NET routing to create routes that map to ashx handlers? I've seen these types of routes previously:</p> <pre><code>// Route to an aspx page RouteTable.Routes.MapPageRoute("route-name", "some/path/{arg}", "~/Pages/SomePage.aspx"); // Route for a WCF service RouteTable.Routes.Add(new ServiceRoute("Services/SomeService", new WebServiceHostFactory(), typeof(SomeService))); </code></pre> <p>Trying to use <code>RouteTable.Routes.MapPageRoute()</code> generates an error (that the handler does not derive from <code>Page</code>). <code>System.Web.Routing.RouteBase</code> only seems to have 2 derived classes: <code>ServiceRoute</code> for services, and <code>DynamicDataRoute</code> for MVC. I'm not sure what <code>MapPageRoute()</code> does (Reflector doesn't show the method body, it just shows "Performance critical to inline this type of method across NGen image boundaries").</p> <p>I see that <code>RouteBase</code> is not sealed, and has a relatively simple interface:</p> <pre><code>public abstract RouteData GetRouteData(HttpContextBase httpContext); public abstract VirtualPathData GetVirtualPath(RequestContext requestContext, RouteValueDictionary values); </code></pre> <p>So perhaps I can make my own HttpHandlerRoute. I'll give that a shot, but if anyone knows of an existing or built-in way of mapping routes to IHttpHandlers, that would be great.</p>

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