Hiding AwareIM URL in Address Bar

Contains tips for configurators working with Aware IM
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Hiding AwareIM URL in Address Bar

Post by customaware »

This has been discussed previously at length and also included discussion regarding the changing
of the AwareIM folder name so that your app URL instead of being...

http://mydomain.com/AwareIM/myapp.html

becomes...

http://mydomain.com/app/myapp.html (or whatever you want "app" to be)

Not sure if anyone suggested this before and dont really have the time to look but thought I might share the following.

Create a Landing Page (not to be confused with your Aware IM Login page) such as
http://mydomain.com/index,html

In the <HEAD> add
<HEAD>
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="mydomain.com">
</HEAD>

After the Head add

<FRAMESET border=0 rows="100%,*" frameborder="no" marginleft=0 margintop=0 marginright=0 marginbottom=0>
<frame src="http://mydomain.com/AwareIM/myapp.html" scrolling=auto frameborder="no" border=0 noresize>
<frame topmargin="0" marginwidth=0 scrolling=no marginheight=0 frameborder="no" border=0 noresize>
</FRAMESET>

While this does not obscure the url from someone who wants to Inspect the page from the browser....It does allow you to only have...

http://mydomain.com in the address bar which works well for me.

Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Mark
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Re: Hiding AwareIM URL in Address Bar

Post by tford »

Create a Landing Page (not to be confused with your Aware IM Login page) such as
When you do this, how do you handle the login page?
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Re: Hiding AwareIM URL in Address Bar

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Just point it to your Aware app login page Tom.
Cheers,
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Re: Hiding AwareIM URL in Address Bar

Post by Powerm »

Be carefull when you do this, locely Internet Explorer will warn user of phishing/danger/end of the world and block the page due to the address mismatch. They will have to go and tweak their security settings ( cookies etc etc ), which everyone is not always allowed to do...
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