HttpModule Changes and Configuration

The first step is to provide a configurable value with the name of the RSS ASPX page. We can achieve this by placing the following new entry in the top-level Web.Config file of the CSK:

<pagePaths>
<add key="basePage"
value="/communityDefault.aspx" />
<add key="baseService"
value="/communityService.asmx" />
<add key="baseRssFeed"
value="/communityRSS.aspx" />

</pagePaths>

For this exercise, we will name our page communityRSS.aspx. In the Web.Config excerpt that we just saw, the path and filename of some of the special CSK pages appear under the pagePaths element in Web.Config. The CommunityGlobals class manages these entries. The static properties of CommunityGlobals allow the rest of the CSK software to access configuration items without knowing all of the details of how the items are stored. This level of indirection is a good practice, which we will follow by adding the UrlBaseRSSFeed property to CommunityGlobals:

public...