how to suppress pagefilenames in url adress

[Jan PA1RQR]

Hello,
Can somebody tell me how I can suppress de name if de page in the url adress
in the browser. I want that the visitor cann't see the name and location of
the file.
I saw several sites where you can see several pages while de url adress is
not changing, you see only the homeadress.
Thanks for your help
Jan

 

[Andy Dingley]

Can somebody tell me how I can suppress de name if de page in the url adress

You can't. This _is_ "the name of the page".

If you want to make it obscure, then store your page content in a
database and use a single scripted page that is passed a parameter to
identify the page. The script then retrieves the content and serves it
as a HTML page. The page URL is obscure though, not invisible, and it
will usually "change" between pages.

I saw several sites where you can see several pages while de url adress is
not changing,

They were problably using frames. You saw the address of the containing
frame and didn't see the address of the page that makes the intersting
frame content. If you looked though (try righ-click and "page info" or
"frame info") then you could see this, and it would change.

This non-changing address in the browser adddress bar is usually
thought of as A Bad Thing. I can't think why you'd want to break your
site so as to inflict it on your users.

 

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Scripsit Andy Dingley:

This non-changing address in the browser adddress bar is usually
thought of as A Bad Thing.

Moreover, it _is_ a very bad thing.

I can't think why you'd want to break your
site so as to inflict it on your users.

The usual reason is that someone put his pages on a "free" server and then
wants to hide the real address, through some fake excuse for a misguided
"redirection service". Of course, this just makes things worse.