Fried Baby Corn

Today I and my wife prepared Fried Baby corn. The recipe is available here. Of course, we customized it a bit with Potato Chips, Fried Cashews, Coriander leaves etc.

The taste? Simply Superb!!

In India, Kingfisher has King Club and Jet Airways has JetPrivilege programme. Like wise Lufthasa is associated with Miles and More Club. You can register for these programmes online for free through the airline websites. Not only that there are some partnerships between some airlines which allow you to earn miles for flying in partnering airlines.

Let me explain in a sample scenario, if you are travelling by Emirates Airlines from USA to Hyderabad. Emirates is a partner airline for King Club, so for flying in Emirates you can earn miles in King Club. In this scenario, you require to go to Kingfisher airlines website and register for King Club (if you are not already registered), you will instantly get a membership number.

You need to submit this membership number to Emirates Airlines (you may submit online, or mention at the time of checkin). Once you travel is complete, Emirates will transfer the miles to King Club. In this scenario, for flying from USA to Hyderabad in Economy will earn you about 9000 miles in King Club. With these 9000 miles, you can book free airline tickets in King Fisher Airlines. So, these 9000 miles are worth about Rs.9000 or more.

Like wise, if you travel by Lufthansa you can get miles in Miles and More which you can redeem with IndiaTimes Shopping. Or you may earn JetPrivilege miles as Lufthansa is associated with Jet Airways.

So, the point here is: Check if the airline you are flying with has partnerships with any airline clubs in your home country. If it has one, register for that club and get miles transferred to the airline in your country. You may use these miles for getting free tickets to domestic flights.

For example, take an URL http://www.examplesite.com/page.asp?article=1234. For a search engine article=1234 does not mean anything. Instead if your webpage address is something like http://www.examplesite.com/page_1234_SEO-Optimization, it can make out that the page is related to SEO optimization and it can index your website properly.

The following article shows how to rewrite URLs in Classical ASP.

When we try to navigate to http://www.examplesite.com/page_1234_SEO-Optimization, as this is ficticious path, the IIS will throw 404 NOT FOUND error. We should capture this error silently and then forward the user to correct page.

1. Open the IIS Console and see the website properties. If you are using Vista, look for Error Pages feature for the website. (Windows XP users should find it in website properties dialog). If you are using Godaddy for hosting, you will find the option in website control panel.
2. For the 404 status code, set Execute a URL on this site to forward.asp.
3. Create a new webpage forward.asp with the following code.

<%

url = Request.Querystring
url = Right(url, len(url) – 4)
url= replace(url, “http://www.examplesite.com:80/“, “”)
url = replace(url, “http://www.examplesite.com/“, “”)
url = replace(url, “http://examplesite.com:80/“, “”)
url = replace(url, “http://examplesite.com/“, “”)

curUrl = split(url, “_”)

if curUrl(0)=”page” and curUrl(1)<>”" then
                  Response.Status = “200 OK”
                  server.transfer(“page.asp”)
else
                  response.redirect(“default.asp”)
end if

%>

4. Open Page.asp file. Your earlier logic might be to find which article should be displayed. Instead of this, we should parse the rewritten URL to find the article id. Insert the following lines of code in Page.asp.

<%

url = Request.Querystring
url = Right(url, len(url) – 4)
url= replace(url, “http://www.examplesite.com:80/“, “”)
url = replace(url, “http://www.examplesite.com/“, “”)
url = replace(url, “http://examplesite.com:80/“, “”)
url = replace(url, “http://examplesite.com/“, “”)

curUrl = split(url, “_”)

if(uBound(curUrl)>1) then
                  if curUrl(0)=”page” and curUrl(1)<>”" then
                         articleid=curUrl(1)
                  end if
else
                  response.redirect(“default.asp”)
end if

%>

We just changed the logic in Page.asp to find which article should be loaded. Earlier we used to find articleid from request.querystring(“article”). Now, we are reading the complete URL and then parsing the string to find the articleid. You might have to change the links across your site to link to the new URLs.

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