Our marketing folks want to use the site name as the sub domain, get rid of the site name in the url path, and of course ditch the .page extension. We are using LS & SP 7.1. I get how the incoming url can be easily rewirtten to point to the correct page using mod_rewrite or via the directions off the tuckey.org site. It is the out going links on the page that are the concern. Just to answer the SiteMap URL Alias question, I have lost that battle and they do not want to have to maintain several thousand pretty url's via the site map.
According the
http://www.tuckey.org/urlrewrite/manual/2.6/guide.html#urlabsTuckey can handle outgoing links as long as response.encodeURL is called on the link. So does the $PAGE_LINK token call encodeURL? If not I could override it or create our own token that does this. Am I looking in the wrong place for something like this?