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Discussion in 'Firefox, Thunderbird & SeaMonkey' started by noiseinthewater, 2010/04/15.

  1. 2010/04/15
    noiseinthewater

    noiseinthewater Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi I am building my e-commerce web site, but the onmouseover and the URL is killing me. So far I can't find a way to hide them. The users after successful payment are supposed to log onto the paid pages whereby they are not supposed to know the URL nor the filenames. I tried frameset before but this is banned by search engine, no good of doing that.

    I wonder why browsers like firefox and IE can't do us a favor like telling us how to make our website so that the back button and the URL are properly hidden. No I don't mean phishing. I just want my URL to look something like www.domain.com without anything after dot com. Wouldn't that be good to help people like us to do the job is a much easier way.

    I really can't understand just because a small group of people are misusing the function to do illegal things and people like us will have to suffer. Again I hope if any of you read this and know how to do it please help me. Thanks, really appreciate it.:)
     
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    If have a page loaded such as www.domain.com and code all the anchor targets to _self, then no matter what page loads the address bar will show www.domain.com. Example:
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    <a href= "page37.html" target= "_self ">Click Here</a>
    But the status bar will always show the actual URL of anchors onmouseover. The way to eliminate that is to open a custom window for certain URLs. That way you can have some control over the browser features.

    What kinds of things specifically? Accessing paid content for free? If so then you need to implement a secure login function and on the paid content pages you'll need to use code that detects if the user is logged in or not. Very simple to do actually. If logged in display paid content elsif not logged in display content like "to view this content you need to cough up some dough. "

    Realize that hiding URLs is not a solution to protected content, ever. One can always view the source code of pages and see the URLs in anchors and one can view the document properties and see the document URL, media, etc.

    Hiding URLs is bad form anyway. Users should always be able to quickly view where they are.

    Also, realize that unless you secure the protected content then anyone can actually download your entire site. All documents, all images, all media, etc. Wget is a command line utility for Linux as well as Windows and it can recursively download/mirror an entire site. And there are plenty of graphical site downloader programs too.
     
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    noiseinthewater Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi TonyT, thanks for the reply. Regarding the script you shown me. I copied and paste on the header of each pages, but it just won't work. Basically I have 4 main buttons on the home page. With respective filenames like index.html , 1.html , 2.html , 3.html . My question is how to use your script so that it works? Please reply and thanks.
     
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    noiseinthewater Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi TonyT, thanks for the reply. I copied the script you gave me and paste it in all the header of the pages. I only changed the filename. But it won't work. Basically I have a total of 4 pages with filenames like index.html , 1.html 2.html 3.html. Please tell me how to use your script to make it work. Thanks.
     
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  6. 2010/04/16
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    What script? I didn't post a script.
    What kind of login system are you using? What language (asp, jsp, php, etc)?
     
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    noiseinthewater Inactive Thread Starter

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    You gave me this <a href= "page37.html" target= "_self ">Click Here</a>

    Is that a script? I am not using any password protection system. Because I believe many of my customers can't remember that. All they have to do is to make the payment say by Paypal and then they will be redirect to some of the paid pages. Currently I am using 3rd party drag and drop to do it. Please tell me how to make only www.domain.com appear when we switch pages. Thanks
     
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  8. 2010/04/17
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    That's not a script. That's standard HTML code for anchors (links).

    Your paid pages are wide open to anybody on the WWW unless you use some kind of user authentication system. There's no way to do what you want unless you implement some method of allowing only paid users to paid content.

    How are you able to post here in this forum? You login with a username and password don't you? Well, most all WWW users are accustomed to doing that in one form or another. They login to their Web mail, they login to their banks, their online bill paying, their accounts at Ebay, Amazon, etc. etc. Why not your site?

    What the address of your site anyway?
     
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