Hiding WebPage name in address bar

[Mustufa Baig]

Hi,

I don't want to show the web page name shown in the address bar.
For example if the website address is http://localhost/webreadfile/ so from
this point forward, no matter which pages I surf, the address bar should
look like http://localhost/webreadfile/. It should not show any page name.

Thanks

 

[Craig Deelsnyder]

Hi,

I don't want to show the web page name shown in the address bar.
For example if the website address is http://localhost/webreadfile/ so
from
this point forward, no matter which pages I surf, the address bar should
look like http://localhost/webreadfile/. It should not show any page
name.

Thanks

Most often this is done with frames/iframe. Otherwise you'd have to do
some sort of URL rewriting (which is possible), but you'd still need
unique URLs for that (albeit more minor changes).

 

[John Timney \(ASP.NET MVP\)]

Why would you ever want to do this, it makes no sense to confuse the user as
to where they are in an application?

You could load a frameset with your site inside another inside a parent
frameset and the URL will not change on the parent.even though the pages in
the child change, or simply launch your site into a window with no chrome

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Regards

John Timney
ASP.NET MVP
Microsoft Regional Director

 

[Mustufa Baig]

Okay. Got it!

I don't want to let users click back button. One way is to hide the tool bar
thru javascript. I can acheive it only when the user clicks on a link and
website opens in a new in a new window. But let say users are not clicking a
link to get to my website, they are actually getting to it by typing website
address. In this case I don't know how to make the toolbar disappear.

Could you please give me some suggestions on this?

Thanks

 

[Kevin Spencer]

The address bar is going to show the URL of the page you are looking at. In
your example, apparently the page is a default page for the virtual
directory it lives in. Otherwise, the file name would appear in the URL.

While I can't for the life of me figure out why you'd want to do this, it
can be done in one of 3 ways that I can think of offhand:

1. Frameset. The URL will always be the URL of the Frameset itself, not any
of the frames.
2. Use a single page with the default file name is used for all pages
visited. Not good performance-wise.
3. Write a custom HttpHandler that handles all HTTP requests, and passes off
the Request to the appropriate page for processing.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
What You Seek Is What You Get.

 

[Patrice]

I belive you could just prevent caching so that those pages are not taken
into account by the history...

You could also implement something so that it doens't cause a problme if
they try to access to a page out of the expected sequence (it this for a
wizard like UI ?).

Patrice

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[Mustufa Baig]

How can I prevent Pages from caching? I don't want to use Response.Expire=0
because its now old method.

Thanx