Url rewriting using IHttpHandlerFactory

Hi,

I'm playing around with url rewriting and I have come across a problem
which
I
can't seem to get past. The general ide is to have a IHttpHandlerFactory
class
which checks the incoming request url against a set of predefined rules and
creates and return the appropriate IHttpHandler implementation.

Inside the IHttpHandler implementations, the request is examined and
interpreted
in the correct way. In short they parse a request into a new url (for
example, could
also be a handler to generate an rss-feed or whatever, hence the need for
the
factory and set of rules) and rewrites it using context.RewritePath()

My problem is (verified by stepping the debugger) is that the factory
creates the
correct Handler.. and the andler interprets the request and calls
RewritePath()
but the page is not displayed in my browser, instead a blank page is shown.

Basicly this is the setup of the testsite (used to reproduce the problem)
is
as
follows

    Root
        Test
            one.aspx
            two.aspx
        Webform.aspx

The URL Rewriting should be able to take Root/Test/1.aspx and rewrite it
into
Root/Test/one.aspx and the same for 2/two.aspx - so it's a very basic test
setup.

The handler which is created it setup as following

// CustomHandler.vb
Public Class CustomHandler
    Implements IHttpHandler

    Public ReadOnly Property IsReusable() As Boolean Implements
System.Web.IHttpHandler.IsReusable
        Get
            Return False
        End Get
    End Property

    Public Sub ProcessRequest(ByVal context As System.Web.HttpContext)
Implements System.Web.IHttpHandler.ProcessRequest

        Dim TargetPage As String = _
            Regex.Match(context.Request.Url.AbsolutePath, "[0-9]+\.aspx",
RegexOptions.IgnoreCase).Value

        If (Not TargetPage Is Nothing) Then
            Select Case TargetPage
                Case "1.aspx"
                    context.RewritePath("~/test/one.aspx")
                Case "2.aspx"
                    context.RewritePath("~/test/two.aspx")
            End Select
        End If

    End Sub

End Class

The factory implementation (remember it's not bulletproof, it's a test app
to reproduce the issue at hand)

Public Class HttpRewriter
    Implements IHttpHandlerFactory

    Public Function GetHandler(ByVal context As System.Web.HttpContext,
ByVal requestType As String, ByVal url As String, ByVal pathTranslated As
String) As System.Web.IHttpHandler Implements
System.Web.IHttpHandlerFactory.GetHandler

        Dim TargetPage As String = _
            Regex.Match(context.Request.Url.AbsolutePath, "[0-9]+\.aspx",
RegexOptions.IgnoreCase).Value

        If (TargetPage.Length = 0) Then
            Return PageParser.GetCompiledPageInstance(url, pathTranslated,
context)
        End If

        Return New CustomHandler

    End Function

    Public Sub ReleaseHandler(ByVal handler As System.Web.IHttpHandler)
Implements System.Web.IHttpHandlerFactory.ReleaseHandler

    End Sub

End Class

the factory has been added to web.config and all is fine.. When debugging
I
can see that when I enter
http://localhost/myapp/test/1.aspx the factory reaches the "Return New
CustomHandler" line and execution
is shifted over to the new objects ProcessRequest method. Continuing to
step
the code and I see it hits the
Case "1.aspx" in the select block, as expected and calls
context.RewritePath("~/test/one.aspx")

This is when I'm left with a blank page. I have my sucpicions, i.e there
is
no compiled instance of the real
page (one.aspx) returned from my handler (and I can't since it's a sub) ..
how would .NET know how to
render my page then? I've seen this design before in the .Text blog engine
source code, but I've been
unable to get it to work.

Please remember that this is a basic test setup used to reproduce the
problem, in hope that someone can
point how the (obvious?) misstake I'm making. I need for a factory to
create
different handlers based on
the requested path, so I can't do it like in a few articles I've seen
where
they rewrite the path and call
GetCompiledPageInstance .. both done in the factory ..

I figure my handler is correct, but the problem is in my factory.. perhaps
I
need to do something to my
handler object before I return it in the factory?

Any advice, suggestions, pointers, help etc is apprechiated! Don't worry
about the VB.NET part i code
C# as well so don't feel hindred by the code :P

Thanks!

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