As previously announced on my blog, Microsoft released a new version of the URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 a few weeks ago. The new release is a Go Live release, so we are getting closer to the final release.
The Microsoft URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 provides flexible rules-based rewrite engine that can be used to perform broad spectrum of URL manipulation tasks, including, but not limited to:
- Enabling user friendly and search engine friendly URL with dynamic web applications
- Rewriting URL’s based on HTTP headers and server variables
- Web site content handling
- Controlling access to web site content based on URL segments or request metadata
Overview of the features:
- Rules-based URL rewriting engine
- Regular expression pattern matching
- Wildcard pattern matching
- Global and distributed rewrite rules
- Access to server variables and http headers
- Various rule actions
- Support for IIS kernel mode and user mode output caching
- Lower case conversion
- Rewrite maps
- Failed Request Tracing support
- Rule templates
- UI for testing of regular expression and wildcard patterns
- UI for managing rewrite rules and rewrite maps
- GUI tool for importing of mod_rewrite rules
For at full list and explanation of features of URL Rewrite Module, see this post.
It’s available for download: