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question about url masking (cloaking)

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I have been looking for info on url masking (cloaking) to see if that is something I can configure on an apache web server, but all I've found so far is other url redirection services that say they provide cloaking.

Does anybody know if url masking is something I can configure myself?

Thanks...
 
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I have a cable modem and a dynamic IP (which supposedly changes very rarely, like every couple months), and am experimenting to see if I can point a domain name to a static IP that will refer to whatever the current IP is. That much I know I can do easily, but I'd like for the address bar to still reflect the original domain name that the user entered, instead of a numeric IP....
 
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>> Have you tried using a service such as or www.zoneedit.com?

danielhozac is right on target here. DNS services do not work by "redirecting" your domain name to your IP address, rather they resolve the domain name so that a client can connect to your IP address.

However this is all done transparently, so a user's machine will see your domain name rather than IP address. Cloaking is unnecessary.

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But anyway, if you're interested in cloaking?

A typical "cloaking redirect" is not actually a redirect, but rather a page such as the following:

<html>
<head>
<title>My Web Page</title>
</head>
<frameset>
<frame src=&quot;</frameset>
</html>

This causes the target page to be loaded in a frame that takes up the whole window, however the URL in the address bar is that of the frameset page.

The disad of cloaking is that the <TITLE> in target pages has no effect, and you are stuck with the title you assigned in the frameset page.

This has nothing to do with apache and should work on any web server -- even free web hosts.

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As far as Dynamic DNS is concerned, I recommend which I use myself -- it is extremely reliable, the zone updates take effect quickly, and it is very easy to use... It also can redirect to other URLs, with or without cloaking... and it can forward emails.

But make sure you own a domain name.

Will
 
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Thanks for the info, apatterno... now I understand cloaking.

I bet there's some way to change that title in javascript though, I'll have to investigate that (as well as zoneedit)
 
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