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MOHIT_125417
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Mar 28, 2015

URL Masking

Dear Experts,

 

Recently i got URL Masking request. What I learn is that URL masking is the act of hiding the actual domain name of a website from the URL field of a user's web browser in favor of another name.

 

Can some one suggest the way to do it with the help of an Example. Can we do it through iRules.

 

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  • giltjr's avatar
    giltjr
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    Mar 28, 2015

    I would suggest that this NOT be done in the F5, but needs to be done on the actual web server. URL masking typically involves manipulating the the actual web page.

     

    Although there are other methods, I believe the most popular method is using iframes. An iframe is basically "a web page within a webpage." The browser sees the URL of the web page, but within the web page (the iframe) it is displaying the "real" content.

     

    You may want to find out if they really want to do URL masking. As the F5 is really a reverse proxy server, they may want you just to hide the fact that the F5 is not serving up the content, that another server behind it it.