IIS - Mapping one extension to another - iis

I did a bit of search but can't find a complete answer to my question:
I wonder if it's possible to set my IIS 7.5 to map one "custom" extension to another "physical" extension.
Eg.
I have Default.aspx, I'd like my server to serve this file to a request of Default.foo.
The mapping questions/answers I found are all about having Default.foo files, and mapping them to the proper handler; that's not my case, I just like to have a sort of masking of the real physical file extension.
Is it possible?
TY

The mapping should be setup between default.foo and default.aspx, mapping extensions cannot achieve this goal. You may use URL Rewrite module to create a rule to rewrite default.foo to default.aspx.
A simple example is as below,
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="foo" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)\.foo" />
<action type="Rewrite" url="{R:1}.aspx" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>

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<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Redirect domain" enabled="true">
<match url="^(.*)$" />
<conditions>
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</conditions>
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I'm developing my first website and just learnt about the web.config file for IIS, so what I'm trying to do is to hide different parts of the url.
For example the homepage is www.domain.com/it/homepage.html and I'd love to make it appear as www.domain.com/it/homepage
I haven't found anything about removing an .html extension on the net, just a lot of .aspx which I tryed to replace with .html, failing miserably.
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You are trying to change the URL of your site, which is the way to access it... that's a pretty odd action to do. When you get a request to your server for a certain page, the URL is parsed as the path to that file. If you want to change the URL, you need to change the name of the file - and if you wouldn't like having a .html in the end, then perhaps the file shouldn't be a html file - however, your goal is different. You want to have no extension at all.
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Side note: There's another way, which is the one you'd usually see around the web. PHP could have other things in the URL than just the endpoint, but you asked about windows based HTML/ASPX windows backed pages.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="niceURL" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />
<conditions>
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
</conditions>
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</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>

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<rewrite>
<rules>
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<match url="blog/myblog/" />
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</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
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http://www.iis.net/learn/extensions/url-rewrite-module/creating-rewrite-rules-for-the-url-rewrite-module
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