need help with url rewriting

[skanky78]

hi,

i'm using the urlrewritefilter to pretty up my product links for a better google indexing (removing product parameter).

example:

.../product/snowboarda

is transferred via url rewriting rule to

.../product.seam?product=snowboarda

rewriting rule

<rule>
 <from>^/product/([a-zA-Z]+)$</from>
 <to>/product.seam?product=$1</to>
</rule>

but my problem ist that i've no idee at the momant how to rewrite outbound links in my facelets. i read the paragraph about outbound-rule in the in the manuel (http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/manual/3.0/). now i'm wondering how i can use this together with s:link? what about form submits or redirects (action outcome null)? please help to sort things out :)

possible rewriting outbound rule (?)

<outbound-rule>
 <from>^/product.seam?product=([a-zA-Z]+)$</from>
 <to>/product/$1</to>
</outbound-rule>

any hints/ideas?

cheers,
sven

[holmes.j]

I had a few problems with this. Managed to figure it out

 <outbound-rule match-type="wildcard">
 <from>/page/activity/details.faces?activityId=*</from>
 <to>/activity/$1</to>
 </outbound-rule>

You'll probably want to substitute the .faces for .seam instead.

[skanky78]

thank you for your reply :) but my problem ist that i don't know how to handle s:links and form submits. how do i rewrite these urls? i have already an outbound rule but it is'nt applied...

sven

[pmuir]

Outbound rules should be applied to any link JSF builds (urlrewrite hooks into the Servlet encoding engine). I've never done this personally though.