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asianet - 27 Sep 2005 13:33 GMT

How to hide the url from the browser? Should show only one url

I have to make a servlet for controlling all other servlets. The
browser should show only one url. eg:
http://www.mydomain.com/ControllerServlet what I have to do for this?
please advice me... Thanks in advance.

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Andrew Thompson - 27 Sep 2005 13:42 GMT

> How to hide the url from the browser?

Do you mean from me, the end user? How dare you!

If you URL is so damn secret, take it off the net,
otherwise it is MINE.

>..Should show only one url
>
> I have to make a servlet for controlling all other servlets. The
> browser should show only one url. eg:
> http://www.mydomain.com/ControllerServlet what I have to do for this?

You can configure your own browser to remove the
address bar, if you so wish, leave my browser alone.

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asianet - 27 Sep 2005 13:49 GMT

hei If you have any solution. Anyway i have to hide the url from the
browser like this

https://www.alawsat.com/servlet/ControllerServlet

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Andrew Thompson - 27 Sep 2005 14:10 GMT

> hei If you have any solution. Anyway i have to hide the url from the
> browser like this
>
> https://www.alawsat.com/servlet/ControllerServlet

They use JS to generate (some of) the menus and
(most of the) links.

Not search engine friendly, and not 'JS disabled' friendly
(that is - not 'accessible' to users without JavaScript).

You can decipher how they do this sordid little
act by examining the source of the web page ..and
learning JavaScript.

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Thomas Fritsch - 27 Sep 2005 13:59 GMT

> How to hide the url from the browser? Should show only one url
>
> I have to make a servlet for controlling all other servlets. The
> browser should show only one url. eg:
> http://www.mydomain.com/ControllerServlet what I have to do for this?
> please advice me... Thanks in advance.

It is not possible to hide the browser's URL using Java code. But it
should be possible by some JavaScript code embedded in the HTML
generated by your servlet. You should ask your question in news-group
comp.lang.javascript

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asianet - 27 Sep 2005 14:04 GMT

Thanks for your reply. Can i get more details regarding this?

> > How to hide the url from the browser? Should show only one url
> >
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> generated by your servlet. You should ask your question in news-group
> comp.lang.javascript

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Chris Smith - 27 Sep 2005 18:32 GMT

> Thanks for your reply. Can i get more details regarding this?

Yes, by asking in the newsgroup comp.lang.javascript. Thomas already
said this once.

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Thomas Kellerer - 27 Sep 2005 14:15 GMT

I'm not entirely sure, but I think if you use a server-side redirect in
your servlet, the browser will only display the original URL.

I think I recall support for this in Struts but I'm not entirely sure.

Thomas

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Chris Smith - 27 Sep 2005 18:35 GMT

> I'm not entirely sure, but I think if you use a server-side redirect in
> your servlet, the browser will only display the original URL.
>
> I think I recall support for this in Struts but I'm not entirely sure.

I've noticed that it seems to depend on the exact redirect status code
used. For example, 307 doesn't generally change the URL displayed in
the browser, but 301 generally does. None of this is specified, so it
likely depends on the browser and its version as well.

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Roedy Green - 27 Sep 2005 20:24 GMT

>How to hide the url from the browser? Should show only one url

It obviously has to be embedded in your HTML somewhere, even if buried
in JavaScript. You can hide it more deeply by having an Applet go for
it but then you need a signed applet.

Let's say your website is called "Killingbunniesforchrist.com" and you
think this may offend some people, get another domain name and point
it to the same IP.

Just use the IP.

If you are trying to avoid great long URLS confusing the user, use the
TinyUrl technique (not TinyUrl literally) See
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/tinyurl.com

If you are just try to make live difficult for support people trying
to sort out problems, or trying to figure out how to phish without
getting caught, a pox on your project.

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Real Gagnon - 28 Sep 2005 03:17 GMT

> How to hide the url from the browser? Should show only one url
> I have to make a servlet for controlling all other servlets. The
> browser should show only one url. eg:
> http://www.mydomain.com/ControllerServlet what I have to do for this?
> please advice me... Thanks in advance.

You need to do a forward from your controller servlet.

Something like

RequestDispatcher dispatcher = request.getRequestDispatcher("myjsp.jsp");
dispatcher.forward(request,response);

See http://www.javapractices.com/Topic181.cjp

Or on the client side, you can use FRAMESET with only one defined FRAME,
the visible URL will always be the FRAMESET page.

See http://www.rgagnon.com/examples/pagefix.html for an example.

Bye.

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HalcyonWild - 28 Sep 2005 16:42 GMT

I am not sure, but I think it might be possible using the web.xml
file's url-mapping element. Check if that works.

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