The SP software includes an implementation of the RequestMapper plugin interface that combines "native" configuration support specific to certain web servers with a portable mechanism that relies on an XML syntax for applying settings to content and works across all the supported platforms.
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Assuming that the web server is appropriately configured, the table below shows which element (labelled in the XML comments above as A-G) each input URL will map to.
Request URL | Maps to... | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| G |
| A | the scheme is http, not https. |
| B | the path portion doesn't match |
| C |
| D |
| E |
| B | the path portion doesn't match |
| F |
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Note in the example above that none of the <Path> elements contain leading or trailing slash characters. Such characters will be stripped from the configuration and ignored, so they are insignificant.
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