[iFrame] Can URL that shows up in status bar be hidden?

[vanc]

I'm playing with Content Master page and in the Content page I've put in a iFrame, yeah I know people is saying that iFrame is evil but hey, I need this thing to load a external site.

Anyway, there is a "little" issue with iFrame is that when it's loading the external site with the URL that I passed to it by setting the SRC attribute, it also show that URL in the Status bar of the browser. The problem is in the URL, it has username and password!!! :( and the target site is taking a bit long to load up!!! so it ends up user see all those information.

I tried to put in a javascript window.status='' in the onLoad event of the iFrame but it doesn't work.

I know hiding the status bar's information is not the right way to deal with this issue, so if anyone can point me to the right way to deal with this issue like using a different technique or controls to archive the same result, that would be a great help to me.

[gits]

'good' browsers will prevent that to help avoiding URL-spoofing. but you might load the page with an AJAX-request (XMLHttpRequest) ... another way would be to POST the params instead of passing it as GET-params (querystring) with the URL so the params wouldn't show up in the URL.

kind regards