ASP.NET MVC to ignore ".html" at the end of all url

Question

I am new to asp.net mvc and now struggling with url routing. I'm using asp.net mvc 3 RC2.

How can I create a url routing that IGNORES the very end extension in url. the extension can be: .html, .aspx, .php, .anything.

For example, these urls:

/Home.html
/Home.en
/Home.fr
/Home

should go to Home controller?

one more example:

/Home/About.html
/Home/About.en
/Home/About.fr
/Home/About

should go to Home controller and About action.

thank you :)

Answer 1

I'm not sure if you're using IIS7, but if so, then I would recommend a rewrite rule which checks for urls ending in .xyz and then doing a rewrites for them without the .xyz.

Something like this:

<rewrite>
  <rules>
    <rule name="HtmlRewrite">
      <match url="(.*)(\.\w+)$" />
      <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:1}" />
    </rule>
  </rules>
</rewrite>

This will handle the use cases you suggested. Anything that ends with an extension and some characters will be rewritten to a url without the extension. The benefit of this is that you will only need one route because everything goes into your application without one.