Are you really sure? As you have written, there isnt anyway to forward a http request? I thought that i could try something like "mod_rewrite"that would forward the request to the destination(same Web Server but another directory) without browser's notification.
Thanks Boyle.
2006/8/3, Boyle Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> From: José Euclides Silva Junior [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 10:42 PM
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> Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hiding directory from the browser address field
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> From: José Euclides Silva Junior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 02/08/2006 17:17
> Subject: Hiding directory from the browser address field
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> Hi guys,
> i need to hide the application(Java) root directory from the
> browser, as you can see at these steps example:
> 1) Http request: www.xxxx.com <http://www.xxxx.com/>
> 2) Apache runs module Alias: redirect www.xxxx.com
> <http://www.xxxx.com/> to www.xxxx.com/somedir/
> < http://www.xxxx.com/somedir/>
> 3) App runs and Apache returns www.xxxx.com/somedir/ to the browser
You are a bit confused about the relationship between what the browser display in its location bar and what apache sends. Apache doesn't send the contents of the location bar - the browser just displays the URL it requested from the server. Here's how it works:
1) User types in http://server/
2) browser looks up server in DNS, sends request "GET /", location bar reads http://server/.
3) server gets request, sees it has a redirect rule so responds 301 Redirect to http://server/dir
4) browser gets redirect, makes new request "GET /dir", location bar now reads http://server/dir.
5) server gets this request, fetches content, sends it back
6) browser gets content and displays it
7) location bar still reads http:/server/dir since that's the last thing browser requested.
So there is no way to do exactly what you want - the server can't control what the browser displays.
However, you may have visited a site that seemed to do that and are wondering how it worked? It cheated and used frames. You basically have a single page at http://server/ that contains a big frame and the frame URL is for the internal content ( http://server/dir). So as you navigate through the site, the top level URL doesn't change and all the navigation is handled in the frame (and usually some _javascript_). The details are out-of-scope on this list (check a frames how-to if you want more info).
Note that this "solution" only prevents the URLs appearing in the location bar. They are still visible to the user if he happens to "view-source" and read the HTML... So this isn't any form of security and is only cosmetic.
Rgds,
Owen Boyle
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> But, at this thime(step 3) i need to alter some http header
> field, because Apache must JUST return " www.xxxx.com
> <http://www.xxxx.com/> " to the browser, instead of "
> www.xxxx.com/somedir <http://www.xxxx.com/somedir> ". How
> coud i do it? Any alias ou rewrite directive available?
> Thanks in advance, Euclides.
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