How To Mask URL?

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by Minterest, Apr 28, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hello,

    I want to mask the URL displayed on the ADDRESS BAR how can I do like that? Say.. I want to redirect the domain name ABC.COM to say XYZ.COM but I want to show the URL ABC.COM on the ADDRESS BAR instead of XYZ.COM. Plase help me...

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  2. itcn

    itcn Well-Known Member

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    Deceptive. I've seen it done using frames. Set the top frame to 1% with the URL you want displayed, then set the bottom fram to 99% to the masked URL.
     
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    Acutally I want to redirect a domain name to my twitter account.... So as to hide the TWITTER URL from the address bar.... Is that really possible?
     
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    Yeah...there are two ways of doing this, as I see it:

    1) Page redirection.
    For this, on your domain, the index.html page's <head></head> tags should incorporate a code snippet like this...
    <META http-equiv="refresh" content="5;URL=http://www.indiana.edu/~smithclas/l200/">
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    a)In here... the 5 depicts the delay that the page will undergo (in seconds) - You can set this to 1 or 2 depending on your requirement.
    b)Replace that URL with your Twitter URL.

    Alternatively..there's option 2
    2) Redirect from your domain registrar's domain manager panel. This is a simple to do thing - needs no help. But still, if you got issues with it, post here, and I'll help you.
     
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    Oh, you don't want to mask the URL, you just want to redirect. Yeah, use the refresh method or set a 301 redirect.
     
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    No sorry.... that post was incomplete.... i have just completed that...
     
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    There's some kind of scam going on here, they should be banned.
     
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