As Philip Jaske mentioned in his interview with Becky Nagel, one of the cool things in ASP.NET Core is the ability to rewrite incoming URLs to "fix up" a request. There are lots of reasons to do this, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...