I am developing an embedded web server. Now, I have an access validation page (e.g. http://192.168.1.1/) at the very start that accepts username and password and validates it and later redirects the users to the actual device control web page (http://192.168.1.1/devicecontrol.html). I do not want the actual url to appear on the address bar. Instead the initial url should be retained so that users cannot directly visit this page and neither be able to bookmark this page....I understand this must be a common requirement but could not find any specific answers to this...any help / references would be hugely appreciated....Thanks in advance.
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Do you need to do this? Is there a reason you don't want to show people the URL?theIV– theIV2010-10-02 02:38:50 +00:00Commented Oct 2, 2010 at 2:38
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1It's not a common requirement to block your users from bookmarking your site :)Henrik P. Hessel– Henrik P. Hessel2010-10-02 02:44:21 +00:00Commented Oct 2, 2010 at 2:44
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You usually want them to KEEP coming back to your site...!kafuchau– kafuchau2010-10-02 07:48:44 +00:00Commented Oct 2, 2010 at 7:48
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1Guys the person here is probably developing an embedded server to run on an embedded device the vistor of which will be a single person and not the masses. Use case is differentAnkur Gupta– Ankur Gupta2011-06-18 12:36:38 +00:00Commented Jun 18, 2011 at 12:36
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That's not possible with Javascript alone. Use a Frameset (or if you're using Apache take a look at the mod_rewrite module).
One more advice: Don't do it! I would leave your site immediately, when I click around and the URL doesn't change. Looks like you're hiding something.
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Saurabh Gandhi
I thought I had made it pretty clear in my question as to why I need to do this...its to disallow users to directly visit some pages that are confidential without logging in...