Hiding URL COMPLETLY.

[fiercesnowboard]

I have done a lot of research trying to find the answers to this. Problem is everyones answers is don't do that because of bookmarking issues. Heres where i need some help. *My sites registration prossess is as follows
-click "buy now" (payments through paypal)
-then after successfull payment the user is then redirected back to success.htm
-once on success.htm i thank them for purchacing the "product" and then there is a button to click to create a user ID and password.
-this window pops up in a window with no address bar and is not scrollable and is in a frame. * the html is even encripted * but if you still right-click inside the frame area you can still get the url address.

ANY Suggesstions on how to hide this information

[ray326]

Don't hide it. Let them put their information in first then make the transaction success depend on the success of the paypal payment.

[Tweak4]

* the html is even encripted *

Oh jeeze... here we go again...

[wh666-666]

You want a URL masker that will keep it to your main URL (eg. www.boo.com) without showing which directories are visited (eg. www.boo.com/members/signup.html will still appear as www.boo.com). I used to have a script for this but i dont anymore even though its useful for alot of reasons but il have a look around and if i find a suitable script post it back here.

[fiercesnowboard]

Oh jeeze... here we go again...
Oh Jeeze? What are you doing again??

Thanks...wh666 I'll be waiting for that script.

[fiercesnowboard]

Well, Here what i did. i disabled right click, so i think this will keep users from seeing the real url.

[wh666-666]

well i did find a script for hiding links that you could try but i cant find at the mo a proper URL masker but heres the script to protect links if its of any use:

<a href="http://www.domain.com" target = '_blank' onMouseOver="window.status='check out blah blah blah website'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">more blah blah blah</a>

[fiercesnowboard]

Cool, Thanks.....

[ray326]

Well, Here what i did. i disabled right click, so i think this will keep users from seeing the real url.You left out the important adjective, "ignorant." If it's important it needs to be handled on the server. You can't protect anything on the browser.

[tabzter]

You cant control the browser!
Once people understand this message then there will no longer be nonsense like this again.

Sure you can resize the window, make the document look nice and so forth but you cant stop me disabling javascript, influence the page I look etc...
People who use Opera for example will still be able to see your page because you cant turn off the url address bar (just click to open).

Stop trying to hide the URL address, your wasting your time.

[felgall]

Can't even spell "Encryption" - not that it matters since you can't encrypt web pages in any useful way since the browser still has to be able to decrypt it and anyone can just view the decrypted version after the browser decrypts it.

I use Javascript to add a "View decrypted source" link to the bottom of specified web pages so that I can assist people with fixing their coding errors even if they are silly enough to use "no right click" and "encryption" to try to drive everyone away from their site.

[fiercesnowboard]

Can't even spell "Encryption"- not that it matters since you can't encrypt web pages in any useful way since the browser still has to be able to decrypt it and anyone can just view the decrypted version after the browser decrypts it.
SORRY! MR. felgall, pleas sir i didn't ask for a spell check. but you have so much information to offer in my delima. This was intented to help me. but no, all you fuc*ing pus*y ass computer nerds think your all superior. Sorry i have nothing more to occupy my time with i just got a little pissed at fuc*wads like felgall........ just venting.

[wh666-666]

Whoaa guys withdraw your claws!! (not imitating a scouser but calm down, calm down!!) I know everyones venting and expressing opinions but we might have some ickle minors viewing these threads so try to be nice everyone before there is any more bloodshed.

Anyway i cant find a URL masker at this point but scripts do exsist for it, but other users are right in a way that it isnt a foolproof way to hide the address bar but its up to you to decide if you wanna go ahead with it because it is a bit of a ball ache finding a good script.

[nataliemac]

If you use a JavaScript to hide your URL and a JavaScript to disable right-click...

...then all I have to do is turn off JavaScript and I can see your URL and right-click to see your source.

You're not really protecting anything and really your time would be better spent on other things.

[felgall]

People usually want to do certain things with their web site for a reason and they don't usually post their reason along with their question.

When someone posts a question such as "I want to hide the URL" or "I want to block the right mouse button" then the reason is usually because they want to protect the content of their page. Answering their question without taking this into account can give them an answer that doesn't resolve what they are trying to do. There is no way to protect any of your page content except images and the way to protect images is to embed a watermark into the images themselves. That doesn't prevent people taking them but it does make taking them rather pointless.

If instead the reason is that you want to make things as difficult as possible for your legitimate visitors so that you drive them away leaving you only with people who want to steal your content then these so called "protection" methods of hiding URLs, blocking right click and encrypting the page are just what you are looking for. Of course if you want to prevent the thieves stealing your content as well as driving away the legitimate visitors then the simplest solution is to just delete the pages completely.