Routing in Umbraco

What the Umbraco Request Pipeline is

This section describes what the Umbraco Request Pipeline is. It explains how Umbraco matches a document to a given request and how it generates a URL for a document.

Request pipeline

What is the pipeline

The request pipeline is the process of building up the URL for a node and resolving a request to a specified node. It ensures that the right content is sent back.

what is the pipeline

Outbound vs Inbound

The pipeline works bidirectional: inbound and outbound.

Outbound is the process of building up a URL for a requested node. Inbound is every request received by the web server and handled by Umbraco.

Customizing the pipeline

This section will describe the components that you can use to modify Umbraco's request pipeline: IContentFinder & IUrlProvider