nicolas wrote: No, that's the role of the SEF systems.
You will find some SEF extensions for Joomla which allow you to modify URLs on the fly in order to do that.
Here is a list of SEF related extensions for Joomla:
extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/sef
Thanks for the tips. I prefer not to use URL rewrite extensions as they can be heavy on the SQL queries, not to mention that they can be problematic and frequently break on Joomla! and extension upgrades. My motto is to use as few extensions as possible on sites. Since HikaShop products do not use the core Joomla! article content component I guess you guys probably had to code all the SEO stuff yourselves, and we are pretty happy with it. This must be due to the complexity of shopping cart scripts. Page speed is a huge issue with my client and we want to keep the site as "no-frills" as possible.