Causing Delay for custom APIs

[lownlazy]

Hello, love the module, I just have a little issue...

The site I administer is over 3 years old and is constantly updated, as a consequence the Auto Generated URLs have accumulated over time into the many thousands, 7300 in fact. This became an issue because calls to extremely simple APIs were taking 2-3 seconds to respond.

It is definitely the Redirect Module causing the delay because I can see the time taken in Sitecores Admin Pipeline profiler. Also because the test web service is minimal code returning 'hello world'.

I of course deleted all the redirects the customer considered unnecessary, the remaining 700 redirects still have a delay of 1.2sec, this is (sort of) acceptable as a one time delay to load the webpage but its a big problem as a delay on web services, of which the site has many.

Is there some way to stop the redirects being triggered on Customer URLs? I tried patching my custom config to initialize the process before the redirect module but this had no effect on the delay. I can change the code myself but I would prefer an official answer to prevent accidental future overwrites.

Thanks!

[BhanuNexus]

I was having a similar requirement, we were overriding CheckForDirectMatch method and filtering some URL's

In CheckForDirectMatch

if (!IsValidPath(requestedPath)) return;
base.CheckForDirectMatch(db,requestedUrl,requestedPath,args);

private bool IsValidPath(string requestedPath)
{
    var excludedUrlsList = Settings.ExcludedUrlsPrefix.Split(';');
    if (excludedUrlsList.Any(q => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(q) && requestedPath.Contains(q))) return false;

    return true;
}

In sitecore config settings

<setting name="ExcludedUrlsPrefix" value="/blog/api/;/chat/api/;" />

not sure if someone has a better solution.

[lownlazy]

thanks, this will do nicely for now.

[lownlazy]

Just FYI for future visitors, this code worked better for me as an override:

public class RedirectProc: RedirectProcessor
    {
        public override void Process(HttpRequestArgs args)
        {
            var requestedPath = HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.AbsolutePath;

            if (!IsValidPath(requestedPath)) return;
            base.Process(args);
        }

        private bool IsValidPath(string requestedPath)
        {
            var excludedUrlsList = Sitecore.Configuration.Settings.GetSetting("ExcludedUrlsPrefix").Split(';');
            if (excludedUrlsList.Any(q => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(q) && requestedPath.Contains(q))) return false;

            return true;
        }
    }

[BhanuNexus]

Just FYI for future visitors, this code worked better for me as an override:

public class RedirectProc: RedirectProcessor
    {
        public override void Process(HttpRequestArgs args)
        {
            var requestedPath = HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.AbsolutePath;

            if (!IsValidPath(requestedPath)) return;
            base.Process(args);
        }

        private bool IsValidPath(string requestedPath)
        {
            var excludedUrlsList = Sitecore.Configuration.Settings.GetSetting("ExcludedUrlsPrefix").Split(';');
            if (excludedUrlsList.Any(q => !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(q) && requestedPath.Contains(q))) return false;

            return true;
        }
    }

this is great, we were having few other customizations hence overriding CheckForDirectMatch