Re: how to replace a URL in the address bar

Mark Kamoski wrote:

How can one replace the URL in the address bar to a "friendly
alternative"?

The addressbar can not display anything other then a real URI that
references the page currently being viewed in the top frame.

Is there a way to do this with JavaScript?

No

For example, suppose [...] I browse to one section in this site, the URL may

look like this...

http://www.MySite.com/Data/Page.htm?...Description=52

...and so on, with many different ugly URL strings....

Use some form of address rewriting (or just clever scripting) so that you
have it in the form:

http://www.MySite.com/Data/17/52/

.... having your content management system spit out more useful ways to
reference the data would be a good idea.

...now, what I want to do is to make the URL in the browser's window
always look like this...

http://www.MySite.com

...no matter what page I am on in the site.

What do you think?

I think its a good way to screw up the ability of visitors to bookmark
pages, but possible with frames (although search engines will bypass them
as usual).

http://evolt.org/article/Search_Engi...049/index.html
and
http://evolt.org/article/Search_Engi...171/index.html
might be of use (although you would have to adapt them to ASP)


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