FAQ Topic - How do I change the text in the url/location bar?

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FAQ Topic - How do I change the text in the url/location bar?
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This text can only be altered by changing the URL of the page.
The normal solution is to use frames, though this can introduce
problems of its own.


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re: FAQ Topic - How do I change the text in the url/location bar?

FAQ server said the following on 1/7/2007 7:00 PM:The second statement doesn't even come close to answering the question.
It is almost totally irrelevant to the question asked. Frames are the
"normal solution" *not* to change the text in the url/location bar.
Although there are other "solutions" now, IFrame/AJAX/Loading JS
Files/etc...
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re: FAQ Topic - How do I change the text in the url/location bar?

Randy Webb wrote:----Frames (which include IFRAME elements) can be used to control the URL
shown in the location bar. If you want to show contents at one location
and the URL of another then (navigating to) a page at the URL that is to
go into the location bar that has a frame pointing the URL of the
desired content achieves that.

Richard.

re: FAQ Topic - How do I change the text in the url/location bar?

Richard Cornford said the following on 1/7/2007 8:15 PM:In the sense it hides/masks the URL then it controls it.
That is very true but doesn't answer the question that is asked. While
it "controls" the URL, it doesn't actually change it, it merely
hides/masks the true URL. And there are other methods to achieve that
that are not mentioned. AJAX being one of them.

The question it does answer is "How do I mask/hide the true URL of the
page?"

And, if the FAQ Entry is designed to answer how to hide/mask the URL
then shouldn't the question be changed?

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re: FAQ Topic - How do I change the text in the url/location bar?

FAQ server skrev:I don't think you can do that without a round-trip to the server. The
normal solution is to use url rewrite or custom error pages. With
frames, the frameset page would have to be a real url with a frameset
document.

With custom error pages you could use JavaScript to submit a form with
a real location to a non existing url on the domain. Then, on the
server, you could use JavaScript to include the real page.

re: FAQ Topic - How do I change the text in the url/location bar?

Roy A. said the following on 1/8/2007 7:49 AM:Actually, you can. An anchor within a page will change the text in the
url/location bar but it won't make a round-trip to the server. The FAQ
itself uses anchors :)
That is not entirely true. If the custom error page uses url rewrite to
point to the true frameset page...
I think (and not totally positive) that what got that question into the
FAQ to begin with was people asking how to hide the true URL of the
page. With the advent and popularity of the XMLHttpRequest Object you
don't see that question asked very often anymore.

In either event, the question has become mostly moot but the answer in
the FAQ doesn't begin to cover the possibilities of leaving the URL
intact while changing the page.
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