how to cover up a link to another place

Hello out there,

What, if possible, can i do when i don't want to show where a link is
going to?

f.i I put a zip file in the next place:
http://www.whateveryouwant.com/me/yank/flip.zip

I have a link on a page f.i http://www.myplace.org/bah/tutorial.html
to the obove zipfile.
What i don't want is that the one who clicks on te link knows where
it's coming from but just the name of the file flip.zip

Anyone?

Andries Meijer

Andries <donotmail (AT) me (DOT) com> wrote

Hello out there,

What, if possible, can i do when i don't want to show where a link is
going to?

Why would you wnat to hide the link's destination? What's the point in
deceiving your visitors?

---- jerry

Hello jerry

I'm not deceiving or trying to deceive anyone!
I just don't want to let people know the file they are asking for is
not on that domain and server but on another.
First I just don't want them poking around
Second They get exactly what they want

There is no deceit.

Andries


On 5 Nov 2003 15:32:30 -0800, jerry (AT) allmyfaqs (DOT) com (Jerry Muelver)
wrote:

Andries <donotmail (AT) me (DOT) com> wrote

Hello out there,

What, if possible, can i do when i don't want to show where a link is
going to?

Why would you wnat to hide the link's destination? What's the point in
deceiving your visitors?

---- jerry

Andries <donotmail (AT) me (DOT) com> wrote

Hello jerry

I'm not deceiving or trying to deceive anyone!
I just don't want to let people know the file they are asking for is
not on that domain and server but on another.
First I just don't want them poking around
Second They get exactly what they want

There is no deceit.

Andries

Oh. I see. You don't want them to know that the file they're getting
is not where they think it is because then they might not think it's
what they think they're getting and might be enticed into poking
around, so you want to fool them into thinking they're getting from
where they expect, so it's not deceit. Your definition of "deceit"
apparently differs from mine.

You can't keep the file destination secret. If the browser can find
the file, so can the browser's user.

---- jerry

Andries wrote:

Hello out there,

What, if possible, can i do when i don't want to show where a link is
going to?

f.i I put a zip file in the next place:
http://www.whateveryouwant.com/me/yank/flip.zip

I have a link on a page f.i http://www.myplace.org/bah/tutorial.html
to the obove zipfile.
What i don't want is that the one who clicks on te link knows where
it's coming from but just the name of the file flip.zip

Anyone?

Andries Meijer

can u use server-side scripting? let the script read it byte-by-byte, so
that the browser thinks, it's downloading for example "file.zip.pl", but
really this script is just giving out an exact copy of the file.

Thomas