RE: [PHP] Manipulate the address field in the browser?

From: Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 22:50:52 +0000
Subject: RE: [PHP] Manipulate the address field in the browser?
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I don't think this is his case. Say, some site on geocities wants to get on and manipulate his BB while showing it's own Geocities URL. What would it have to do with apache? It is rather like using frames. (or JavaScript of some kind) Maxim Maletsky > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Harrington [mailto:dan@harringtons.net] > Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 12:25 AM > To: Erik Price > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP] Manipulate the address field in the browser? > > > Sounds to me like an Apache Alias Directive is what you need. > can you get at your apache configuration? :-) > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_alias.html > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Erik Price [mailto:pricee@hhbrown.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 4:22 PM > > To: Kevin Stone > > Cc: PHP-general > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Manipulate the address field in the browser? > > > > > > > > On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 05:44 PM, Kevin Stone wrote: > > > > > Here's a crazy question. Say I have a script (such as a bulliten board > > > script) that is run by many clients (other websites) off of one location > > > on my web account. Think of it as a service of some kind. Is there > > > anyway to trick the browser into displaying the client's domain rather > > > than my own? I would want it to look as though you've never left their > > > website when in fact you are now on mine. Possible? > > > > My domain name registrar uses a neat trick called "stealth forwarding". > > It's probably explained in some tutorial on the web, so I won't > > speculate on how it's done, but the principle is this -- > > > > You have a web page hosted at a certain ISP... where the domain name is > > something like http://isp.com/~eprice/index.html > > > > But you just purchased a fancy domain name from an independent domain > > name registrar (not thru your ISP) and you want to point the new domain > > name to the old domain name. Unfortunately, the ISP didn't give you a > > dedicated IP address and they won't give you a virtual host, so you have > > no way to map your shiny new domain name to your web site. > > > > Stealth forwarding essentially makes the entire browser window into one > > giant new frame. The contents of the frame are > > http://isp.com/~eprice/index.html, but because the > > frameset is hosted by > > the indie domain name registrar, and they have your shiny new domain > > name mapped to a virtual host on their servers or something, it looks > > like (judging from the URL bar) a user is browsing > > http://shinynewdomainname.com, not http://isp.com/~eprice/index.html. > > > > The only problem is that (a) it relies on frames, so it might not work > > for all browsers (and definitely won't work for scripts), and (b) the > > URL never changes -- the domain name registrar is hosting the frameset, > > not the site, so all the URL bar ever shows is the name of the master > > frameset -- http://shinynewdomainname.com. > > > > My registrar is easyDNS, maybe they have information about how it's done > > if you can't find it elsewhere but I'd be surprised if you couldn't. > > > > > > Erik > > > > > > > > ---- > > > > Erik Price > > Web Developer Temp > > Media Lab, H.H. Brown > > pricee@hhbrown.com > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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