URL cloaking using JavaScript?

[°l|l° PUP°l|l°]

Ello humans,

I have got my domain with netsol, and dispite constant emails to they're CS, they don't seem to be able to confirm or deny whether they have a decent webforwading package, so I am guessing they don't!

I used to have a domain with a lil co called uk2.net, which were ****e on the whole, however they're webfowarding was really cool!
It would mask the underlying address you fowarded it too (in my case cheap-skate ISP hosting), and you could navigate through out the site, and even to other external sites, and the URL would stay as yourdomain.com, which was pretty cool.

Mine literally is a one pointer, it takes you and drops you at the long, ugly cheapispdomain.username.bla.bla.bla.krud/index.htm

Now sometime ago I am sure that I came across a javascript that will force the first address to stay, think it might of had something to do with cloaking! Am I wrong?

Been surfing the java sites, and not been able to get what I am looking for, mainly on account of not really knowing what it is that I am looking for!

Does anyone here know?

Thanks a mill

Puppy Power

[oracleguy]

I know about the "cloaking" you speak of. I use right now on my domain while we are re-building our webserver we have it redirected to a backup server. I believe only the company hosting the domain address can provide cloaking.

www.mydomain.com has a pretty good forwarding package and they do let you transfer domains.

[premshree]

http://cjb.net supports URL cloaking. Your domain will look like domainName.cjb.net

Well, frankly I don't find URL cloaking a good idea. It is better for visitors to know where they exactly are......

[Gordo]

put your site in a zero frame

or another registrar with such 'cloaking' is www.directNIC.com -- gasp, it's a zero frame!

[°l|l° PUP°l|l°]

Welll I know I can change the DNS, but I was hoping there was some coding I could put in the page that would do it, as I am sure I have come across it before! As I just graduated and don't have money! Plust I paid for email from netsol mail@mydomain, which means I have to keep the DN hosting with them to keep the email :(

I don't need people to see where they are by URL cause its a long scrawl of dodgey file names and folders, as I have desinged it with good navigation so that you know where you are from the menu system changing colours to say what page you are on :)

[joh6nn]

so what happens when they want to bookmark or email a page of yours, and the URL is cloaked?

[°l|l° PUP°l|l°]

well I want it to be booked marked as www.domain.com rather than username.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/home/hot/index.htm.

Will that not be possible? It doesn't have to be cloaked, I just want it to force the domain to stay instead of the fowarding..

Bare in mind this is my personal homepage, which just has an index page, a page to look at my resume, and past work, and some pics!! Its a four page simple html/javascript page! So its really no big deal to make them go to the index each time!

If its not possible its not the end of the world, I just want to re-enforce the domain name as my brand name. Perhaps I should point out that I do branding, and in-particular e-branding for a living.

Eventually I will transfer to somewhere where I can get a hosting package as well, so that the domain is the URL! :) But untill those days of financial stabilty I gotta find the cheap skate way ;)

[joh6nn]

well, i'm not sure, since i don't use domain forwarding at all, but i don't think the cloaking will work on bookmarks at all. they'll end up seeing the big long url, instead of the domain name. could be wrong, though.

[°l|l° PUP°l|l°]

yeah joh6nn I think you're probably right, I must admit, I didn't really think about bookmarks!

But with bookmarks its not really a problem, because I name the page by my domainname.com and so they'll not see the underlyin address..

But if you check out one of my other domains www.missionhq.co.uk hosted at uk2.net and you'll kind of see what I mean...