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Lee_Duff_53920
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Oct 20, 2006

Removing URI from Browser

Hi,     We have a customer who has a security requirement that the URI of pages arent displayed within the browser.     For example, they access www.test.com and this may load www.test.co...
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hoolio
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Oct 20, 2006
Hello,

 

 

This isn't possible based on the way HTTP works. If a user accesses the root document of a web application, the URI is /. When they click on a link within the page content, that URI is displayed in the browser when the HTTP response is received from the web application. There is no way that I can think of to completely prevent a client from knowing what directories/pages they are accessing when using a standard browser.

 

 

You could use javascript on the client side or Flash to mask the resources from the client, but anyone using a browser plugin, interception proxy or sniffer would still be able to see what they are accessing within the web application.

 

 

Aaron