Re: 'masking' or 'hiding' am ip address from a web browser

["Meritt James" <meritt_james () bah com>]

The system that it is connected to does not have to be the originator of
the content that it is displaying.  Ever looked at the IP reported if
you go through a proxy?

Thorne wrote:
> Honestly Is it going to matter a user who wants you ip can you A sniffer or
> even Netstat to get what ip there machine is currently connected to. Its a
> inheriet Feature of TCP.
>
> Bill
>
> On Friday 24 October 2003 14:55, Hagen, Eric wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
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