Re: hide long urls behind domain name (frame based masked forwarding)

From: David Wang [Msft] (someone_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/28/05

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    Use Microsoft ISA Server for this sort of task.

    What you want to do is beyond the services of a web server, which just
    serves content, not re-route URL requests. Proxy server is where you do such
    things.

    What is happening is that the web server only knows about the long URLs, and
    when you send 302 redirections from your ASP script, it is also using the
    long URLs. So somewhere, you need to run code that translates long to short
    URLs -- and the proxy server is where the code belongs.

    Frame-based masked forward is really not hiding the long URLs at all. What
    happens is that the browser still knows about the long URLs and makes
    requests to them. Due to how Frames work visually (if you have 5 frames on
    screen, which URL shows in the title bar?), you get away with "masking", but
    really, the browser knows about the long URLs, you see them in HTML source
    code, etc. 

    -- 
//David
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"yves desmyter" <yves.desmyter@telenet.be> wrote in message
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I have an intranet server where sites with long URLs reside :
http://spsserver.firm.intra/sites/groupnorth/default.aspx
I would like to use shorter urls like 'http://GpNorth.firm.intra' that
point to the long URLs.
DNS settings do not allow to point to URLs (so tell me the gurus).
So now I let all the short urls point to an virtual server in IIS
which has all their names as host headers.
Then I run an ASP script that depending on the entered short url
routes the clients to the correct long url.
BUT : the problem is that the client sees the long URL and not the
short one. I've found that what I want is called 'frame based masked
forwarding' so that the longer url is always hidden behind the shorter
one.
Does anyone know what I need to realise this in our Microsoft
environment ?
Thanks in advance.
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