getting to a user page by URL e.g. www.mysite.com/username

Hello all

i would like to manage to do the following:

in my website there r registered users.
each user has a profile.

i would realy like to help the other users access a certain user profile by:

www.mysite.com/username
rather then
www.mysite.com/viewprofile.asp?user=username

i'v seen that made on serveral websites, how can i do it?

i geuss thats involving giving the server default asp page for parameters or somthing like that...(I am using IIS 5)

plz help, thank u all.

Well, depending how many users you have, you could just make a page for each user, and link to the page with plain ol' HTML, which would give you the address you wanted.

no... thats not an option
i have many users...

the thing is that every thing is ok with:
www.mysite.com/viewprofile.asp?user=karahana

i just want some kind of auto-reference from:

www.mysite.com/karahana
TO:
www.mysite.com/viewprofile.asp?user=karahana


a good example for that can be found in:

www.faceparty.com/Karahana <- for example
its totaly automated... i just dont know how to do it :/

Put in a custom 404 error page that reads the url requested and redirects to the correct URL page. Ie

url = Request.ServerVariables("QUERY_STRING")
(you could do this in PHP if you are using linux)

parse this string for the /username, then use this to build your redirect URL