> I'm not precisely sure what you're asking... You don't want the program > names to appear in the URL? Is that the gist of it?
Correct. > If you want something more sophisticated that's able to completely change > what the URL looks like, you might look at the various mod_rewrite related > directives in Apache. I experimented with mod_rewrite, but I discovered when it found it's matching RewriteRule, it took the resulting replacement string and prefaced it with the document root, which in my case gave me http://domain/htdocs/libraryalias/abc.pgm, which it couldn't resolve. I tried using the R flag for redirection, as well as the RewriteMap directive to specify an external list, in order to avoid this root document prefacing problem --- neither worked, as they forced the server to re-evaluate the entire URL. I spent about 5 hours last week trying different things with mod_rewrite, and I couldn't get it to do want I wanted. > Another idea is to have a state management program that's the target of > all CGI requests. It could use a cookie to keep track of where the > browser left off, and could call the appropriate CGI script based on that. > That way, the user would only see one URL True, although this relies on cookies, which some users may have disallowed (probably not many, but some). I guess I'm hoping for a server-based solution (which is why I tried this various directive permutations of mod_rewrite). > There are many possibilities, and I don't know which one to recommend, > because I don't entirely understand why you have this requirement. Who > cares if they can see the name of your programs and/or libraries in the > URL? What harm does that do? What do you want to gain by changing it? No harm in seeing them I suppose. I was just thinking that it would be nice to hide them and give the illusion that I'm serving up static HTML. I guess I was trying to avoid providing the user with information as to what the host was running to generate the data. Also, a curious person might think "well, if there is an OrderEntry.pgm, then there must be an OrderCancel.pgm, an OrderCopy.pgm, etc". I'd was hoping to force the navigation through the site by means of the content of the pages, instead of providing clues as to what program names they could manually enter into the address bar. I guess it was a crazy idea after all. :) John ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/wbFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Easy400Group/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
