You can use UrlData objects to get the data from the Url, for example if the URL to the page where you would read the name is like http://www.example.com/page/MyNameHere
The code to get the MyNameHere would be like this,
var name = UrlData[0];
You can specify many more these objects in the URL, to remove the QueryStrings from the URL. Read Mike's
post[
^] for these URL informations.
Second method of this can be, to split the URL at the '/' and after that, get the last string from array. That will have the page and the QueryString, replace all of the known data with an empty string. Remaining would contain the name variable.
Still asking, why you don't want to use it anyways?