Can I have 'friendly' url's without a URL rewriter in IIS?

Question

Without having a url rewriter such as ISAPI_Rewrite available, is it possible to achieve the following:

I would like a user to browse to http://www.jjj.com/directo

Answer 1

Is IIS7 on the approved list of software? That can get you native url rewriting and side-step the whole issue.

Second option -- my CFM voodoo is rusty, but I think you can setup IIS6 to look for a CFM page (like you are doing) but then step in at the application level and do the url rewriting/repointing before it actually hits the 404 page.

Another way around it -- find an ISAPI url rewriter that is, say, under the MIT license. Build your own copy. Then have them install that as part of your software package.