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Localization of controller action names

I have a problem. I would like to localize the names of my actions in my project so that French people can have clean URLs with French names.

http://www.test.com/Home should be http://www.test.com/Accueil

This is good for google indexing too. Also, I would like to be Restful in the application, so I would like to keep the English name as well, because the developers (even the French) prefer to work on English names.

I don't know if this is possible and how.

My first idea should be something like getting the browser language, assign it to CurrentThread.CurrentCulture, so I can pick the view name I want.

Thanks a lot for your answers.

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you can do this when you register routes in global.asax.

if you have this:

routes.MapRoute("Catalog-Brands", "catalog/brand/", new {controller = "Brand", action = "Index", isActive = true});

you can do that too (i don't know french, sorry)



routes.MapRoute("Catalog-Brands-French", "french-catalog/french-brand/", new {controller = "Brand", action = "Index", isActive = true});

you can either make them globally available or have a separate file:

public static void RegisterUsRoutes

public static void RegisterFrenchRoutes

you will need to make a decision when the application starts, though (you may or may not be able to register routes at runtime.)

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If you can use ISAPI, that is, if you are in control of IIS, your best bet is to use ISAPI. I recommend Ionics Isapi to you: http://www.codeplex.com/IIRF



It implements more or less what the Rewrite mod in Apache does (redirects).

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