David
Sat May 08 18:07:39 CDT 2004
It is not possible to have a website that has links and not display website
URLs.
Bottom line:
Navigating a website requires the client to send SOMETHING different to the
server to indicate the act of navigation. HTTP is stateless, so this
"difference" must be transferred somehow -- either as state transferred as
cookies passed between the client/server (and can be sniffed), or in the
form of different URLs and/or querystring.
Normal web browsers only allow the user to send different URLs, querystring,
or FORM parameters to the web server -- so if you don't want the client to
display different website URLs and querystring, you can only send pages that
send POST'd FORM parameters to the web server. This means all your pages
must be forms that send POST to the lone displayed URL, and that URL must
parse parameters out of the POST and send back the appropriate page content.
This scheme is instantly unfriendly to Search Engines and places a huge
clamp on webpage design and server-side tools (URL/querystring is cheap to
modify; entity body is not).
If you have existing web pages, they must all be re-written such that they
send navigation hints via FORM parameters.
--
//David
IIS
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"Adam Knight" <adam.jknight@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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Is their a way to set up a web site so that website urls are not displayed
including querystrings. Instead all that is seen in the domain name like.
www.mydomain.com
Answers appreciated !!!