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Last post 02-20-2012, 11:02 PM by johnmathew44. 13 replies.
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  •  08-01-2006, 2:13 AM Post number 1497

    URL Hiding

    Hi,

    In my web application, I need to hide the URL from the end user. Please help me!!

    Regards,

    Pratap.

     

     

  •  08-01-2006, 10:39 AM Post number 1500 in reply to post number 1497

    Re: URL Hiding

    I'm a bit confused.  How will the user get to the application without the URL?  Or do you mean some other URL within the application?  Can you give us some more background on what you need to do?

     


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  •  08-02-2006, 6:41 AM Post number 1503 in reply to post number 1497

    Re: URL Hiding

    I hope I've guessed what you want correctly. If not, then my apologies all round.

    Web applications sometimes need to look like conventional windows applications. I guess you want a browser window without all the stuff at the top and bottom of the frams such as the URL (the 'location') Normally, the best approach is to open the window for your application using javascript by means of the window:open() method from your initial application window... This allows you control over whether the 'location' is visible (the input field for entering URLs directly into the browser), amongst a whole lot of other attributes that can be changed, such as toolbar visibility, directories, status-bar visibility, menubar visibility, window frame, width and height  to get the browser to look exacly how you want it to look.

    One thing you have to be particularly careful with. Popup-blockers will detect your use of the wondow:open method and will try to block it if it is not within and anchor (<a>).Various popup-blockers work in different ways, so you might need to experiment.

    Let me know if I'm on the right track about your requirements, and if so, whether you would like some sample code to get you started! As I use javascript directly rather than abstract all the nitty-gritty behind .NET, then Adam, or some other Guru had beeter chip in with the 'Softie' solution.

     

  •  08-02-2006, 10:55 AM Post number 1507 in reply to post number 1503

    Re: URL Hiding

    Assuming that Phil has determined your true requirements, there may be another solution -- perhaps someone can chime in on whether this is still a technology that's in use, but I remember something called HTA (HTML Applications?), which was a special HTML file you could have someone click that would launch, IIRC, a browser window with no features, and with greater system access (important for ActiveX, etc).  Something to consider, perhaps...

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  •  12-29-2006, 10:17 AM Post number 10299 in reply to post number 1497

    Re: URL Hiding

    If all that you want to do is conceal the 'real' URL from the end-user, you might want to try TinyURL (http://www.tinyurl.com) or think about URL rewriting (MOD_REWRITE for Apache; there is also a program for IIS that does it).
  •  07-10-2007, 5:50 AM Post number 33342 in reply to post number 1497

    Re: URL Hiding

    use javascript method onmouseover() clear the window.status.

    and httpcontext object to clear url bar in explorer.but this is in asp.net only

     

     

  •  03-30-2009, 6:15 AM Post number 72650 in reply to post number 1497

    Re: URL Hiding

    Here a great site can hide you link
    www.FilesUp.info
  •  06-21-2010, 5:31 AM Post number 93147 in reply to post number 1497

    Re: URL Hiding

    Hello,

    Can Any one please let me know how to hide the url from my browser please, im getting trouble from it.. Let me know as soon as possible.. About hiding the urls..

  •  08-03-2010, 4:03 AM Post number 93711 in reply to post number 93147

    Re: URL Hiding

    i i was looking for same thing like hiding link, now iam trying fileup
  •  08-11-2010, 1:05 AM Post number 93959 in reply to post number 93711

    Re: URL Hiding

    One simple way is to load all your pages in a iframe.
  •  02-18-2011, 1:56 AM Post number 99701 in reply to post number 93959

    Re: URL Hiding

    How will the user get to the application without the URL?  Or do you mean some other URL within the application?
  •  07-29-2011, 12:15 PM Post number 102622 in reply to post number 1497

    Re: URL Hiding

    Oh, i understand. Thanks
  •  09-24-2011, 11:28 AM Post number 103469 in reply to post number 1497

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    Re: URL Hiding

    You cannot hide an entire URL, but what you can do is mask the page that is being opened.

    For this, there a couple of nice tools like: UrlRewriting.NET, UrlReWriter

    You can also refer to Scott Gu's nice article: Tip/Trick: Url Rewriting with ASP.NET

    Watch this video on You Tube.

    Hope this helps.

  •  02-20-2012, 11:02 PM Post number 106109 in reply to post number 103469

    Re: URL Hiding

    This is not possible because this can cause a huge security risk for users of your website. Someone could easily set up a phishing website for paypal, and modify the url to say paypal.com instead of whatever false url they were using before. Why would you even ask for such a thing to be possible? If any browser were to adopt this ability all users of that browser would be at risk.
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