Hi,
I’d like to do a external redirect like follows:
Incoming URL: http://www.mycomp.com/mynewservice
Redirect To: http://myservice.servicecomp.com.
The problem is that in the address bar of the browser the destination URL is shown. This what I want to prevent (By the way it would be no problem for that servicecompany to show some webspace under my URL)!
Any ideas ??
regards and thanks in advance
Thomas
Subject: Redirect to ext. URL
Hi Thomas
Make sure the document ‘mynewservice’ has a big AND hidden frame. Then launch the required URL (http://myservice.servicecomp.com.) into the frame content. The user’s browser will still show your original URL because brwoser addresses don’t automatically display frame content URLs.
This is how domain hosts do domain forwarding and ‘cloak’ the destination URL or IP address. Some also call this ‘stealth’ URL.
Have fun
Bizhan
Subject: RE: Redirect to ext. URL
Thanks Bizhan for your quick response.If I solve it with hidden frames and somebody right klicks into the frame and bookmark the page. Will he have my URL bookmarked or “myservice.servicecomp.com”?
cheers
Thomas
Subject: RE: Redirect to ext. URL
Hi Thomas
They will have “myservice.servicecomp.com”.
It seems lik you want your URL to be bookmarked which is understandable. I have experienced all sorts of work arounds. For example there are wites with pages on which the right mous click is disabled or they customise the menu. It depends on how far you want to take things.
I don’t know whether this works or not, but you may want to investigate pulling the page at “myservice.servicecomp.com” into a richtext field on your own page with a formula. Then I think the URL that is bookmarked will be yours.
If that target page has links on it, you can use javascript to hide them in the staus bar so a mouseover does not show the link address.
Have fun
Bizhan
Subject: RE: Redirect to ext. URL
Thanks for your quick response, Bizhan.Will one of your suggested tips.
regards
Thomas