HttpHandler fire only if file doesn't exist

Question

I\'m trying to create a HTTP handler to handle all requests to a folder but I only want it to fire if the files requested don\'t exist (EG: Request comes in for file X, if X exi

Answer 1

If you would prefer to not create an HttpModule, I can think of two hacks:

1. Use something like mod-rewrite on Apache or II7 rewrite on IIS to allow specific URLs that exist to go through, take anything else and redirect it to your static file. This could be a large list and I would only recommend implementing this hack if you only have a small number of files.
2. Change your URL structure to support a routing script that can check to see if the file exists and return it when appropriate. This approach will likely affect caching, so please use caution.

Jacob