URL Rewriting and Syndication in linkibol

note to self: those mappings have changed in the new version. I'll update this post and put a link to the updated mappings.

Finally linkibol's url rewriting module is up ad runing .

With the help of this module you can...

• Easily browse links by tag name  http://www.linkibol.com/link.bul/etiket/{tagname}
  • e.g. http://linkibol.com/link.bul/etiket/ajax
• Easily filter out links buy user and tag like: http://www.linkibol.com/link.bul/linkibolcu/{username}/etiket/{tagname}
  • e.g. http://linkibol.com/linkibolcu/volkan/etiket/ajax
• Grab the feeds of current links:http://www.linkibol.com/link.bul/atom/guncel
  • http://linkibol.com/link.bul/atom/guncel
• Get the feeds of the most popular links: http://www.linkibol.com/link.bul/atom/populer
  • http://linkibol.com/link.bul/atom/populer
• Get an OPML of the most popular linkibol users: http://www.linkibol.com/link.bul/opml/linkibolcu
  • http://linkibol.com/link.bul/opml/linkibolcu
• Get an OPML of the links that are tagged with top 20 tags that are used in linkibol most: http://www.linkibol.com/link.bul/opml/etiket
  • http://linkibol.com/link.bul/opml/etiket

Aside from the above link patterns, in the upcoming releases, we plan to implement...

• A filter mechanism o get links by invididual users (like http://www.linkibol.com/link.bul/linkibolcu/{username} (this feature is already present, however there is a tiny little bug, that prevents this from working properly -- will be working on this soon)
• A filter mechanism to get links by multiple users (like http://www.linkibol.com/link.bu/linkibolcu/{username1}/{username2}
• A filter mechanism to get links by multiple tags (like http://www.linkibol.com/link.bul/etiket/{tag1}/{tag2}
• A filter mechanism to get links by a combination of the two (like http://www.linkibol.com/link.bul/linkibolcu/{username1}/{username2}/etiket/{tag1}/{tag2} )

I'd appreciate any comments and suggestions on these.

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For the techy geeks out there, all of these are possible by implementing an Http Module to IIS. I'll elaborate on it in the followng post. Just keep tuned in