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RE: 'masking' or 'hiding' am ip address from a web browser
From: "Hagen, Eric" <ehagen () DenverNewspaperAgency com>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:55:33 -0600
The browser shows whatever site it thinks it's viewing. So... if your server is only accessable by and IP, then that's what the browser will show. There is a "stupid browser trick" where you can put a framset HTML page out on a DNS-supported server somewhere and then make a single full screen frame that contains your app. in this way, only the URL of the frameset HTML is displayed, even though you are viewing a page on your local page. This can be misleading to the user because it conceals all of the command-line arguments and other things... no matter what you do in your app, the URL bar will always show "http://www.mysite.com/myapp/" which is where the frameset is hosted, even if the contents of the screen change or link off-site (of course, unless your app uses "target=_TOP" in it's external links). Eric -----Original Message----- From: Bryan Sultanik [mailto:Bryan.Sultanik () tdh state tx us] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 6:49 AM To: 'security-basics () securityfocus com' Subject: 'masking' or 'hiding' am ip address from a web browser How can I mask or hide my ip address behind a 'friendly name' when users access my web app via web browser. Currently, when they hit the app, their browser shows 192.xx.xxx.xx instead of 'myserver'. I am running Web logic 7 on a Win2k server, have specifically chosen not to register the server in our enterprise DNS for security reasons. Thanks in advance. --Bryan --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visual & Easy-to-use are not words that you think of when talking about network analyzers. Are you sick of the three window text decodes? Download ClearSight Network's Analyzer and see a new network analysis tool that makes the complex - easy http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/ClearSightNetworks_security-basics_0310 21 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visual & Easy-to-use are not words that you think of when talking about network analyzers. Are you sick of the three window text decodes? Download ClearSight Network's Analyzer and see a new network analysis tool that makes the complex - easy http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/ClearSightNetworks_security-basics_031021 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- 'masking' or 'hiding' am ip address from a web browser Bryan Sultanik (Oct 24)
- Re: 'masking' or 'hiding' am ip address from a web browser Tomas Wolf (Oct 24)
- Re: 'masking' or 'hiding' am ip address from a web browser Fernando D. (Oct 27)
- Re: 'masking' or 'hiding' am ip address from a web browser Jimi Thompson (Oct 28)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: 'masking' or 'hiding' am ip address from a web browser NMilford (Oct 24)
- RE: 'masking' or 'hiding' am ip address from a web browser Hagen, Eric (Oct 24)
- Re: 'masking' or 'hiding' am ip address from a web browser Thorne (Oct 27)
- Re: 'masking' or 'hiding' am ip address from a web browser Meritt James (Oct 27)
- Re: 'masking' or 'hiding' am ip address from a web browser Thorne (Oct 27)
- RE: 'masking' or 'hiding' am ip address from a web browser Hagen, Eric (Oct 27)
- Re: 'masking' or 'hiding' am ip address from a web browser bp1974 (Oct 30)