Before we compare life cycle of both the page request lets first understand the asp.net application life cycle. Stages of the ASP.NET application life cycle (IIS 7.0) 1. Request is made for an application resource: When the integrated pipeline receives a request, the request passes through stages that are common to all requests. These stages are represented by the RequestNotification enumeration. All requests can be configured to take advantage of ASP.NET functionality, because that functionality [...]

Working with a client recently I had the old issue of them using “http://sharepoint” for internal users and then “https://sharepoint.domain.com” for external access. Of course as you would expect SharePoint takes care of most of the issues with ensuring the URL’s for links are correct such as automatic navigation links, search results etc. However what it did not take care of as we all know is the hardcoded and manually added links to the pages [...]