Can I have 'friendly' url's without a URL rewriter in IIS?

Question

Without having a url rewriter such as ISAPI_Rewrite available, is it possible to achieve the following:

I would like a user to browse to http://www.jjj.com/directo

Answer 1

You're asking how to cut something but telling us you're not allowed to use a knife or anything resembling one.

Here's my only clever idea using onMissingTemplate().

GET /directory/
-> 404.cfm
->
-> fires onMissingTemplate() where you ignore the "special.cfm" bit and just use the rest of the requested path to figure out what controller to wire up to.

This is a kludgy hack, though, so I would try to avoid it myself. Maybe if you explain why ISAPI Rewriting isn't an option, then we might be able to help further.