Semi-thoroughly hiding the URL of a popped-up page from the user

[DayLaborer]

My superboss (i.e. boss' boss ) asked me to do the following and I'm a bit stuck...

I need to place a link on our intranet that will open a new window to a page which is hosted externally - i.e. the HTML is not in my control. The tricky part is that I must completely hide the URL of the pop-up page. For simplicity, I'll refer to the page which (the HTML) is under my control as the intranet page and the external page to which I'm linking/displaying as the external page.

Here's the places that the URL is potentially displayed:[ol]
[li]The status bar of my intranet page[/li]
[li]The status bar of the external page (i.e. when user mouses-over links in the external page)[/li]
[li]The title bar of the external page[/li]
[/ol]

I've been working with this code:

<script language="JavaScript"> 
function OnlineCourse() 
{ 
 window.open(''[URL unfurl="true"]http://TheSecretURL.com'',''new'',[/URL]
 ''width=750, height=550, scrollbars=yes, status=no, titlebar=no, menubar=no, toolbar=no, resizable=no''); 
} 
</script>
<a href="JavaScript:OnlineCourse()">Click here</A>

...but it only addresses only issue #1.

My instructions are that although "view source" and right-clicking on the external page will display the URL, I don't need to worry about that...

Thanks!

 

[trollacious]

Why are you using pairs of single quotes in your code example rather than just one at a time?

As for the parameters not working, try taking the spaces out of the last argument and see how that works.

width=750,height=550,scrollbars=yes,status=no,titlebar=no,menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=no

Lee

 

[DayLaborer]

Lee, thanks for the fast reply. Same thing without the spaces. I was using pairs of single quotes because I'm storing the HTML in SQL Server - but I replaced them with regular quotes, now that you mentioned it. Same thing, though...

 

[LFI]

Some external pages won't let you do this, but depending on whose page it is you're linking to, you could, instead, link to a page of your own creation and have that page load this other page in a frame. Still, if the user wants to know the URL of that page, they can right-click on it and check properties.

Even if you get your method to work, if a user hits CNTL-N, a new window will open with the URL in the address bar in full view. At least, that's what I've always done when I want to see the otherwise-obscured URL (using IE).

Dave

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[trollacious]

You might want to change the name of the window from the word new since that's a reserved word in Javascript. I don't think that will affect what's happening, though.

According to Microsoft

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...hop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/open_0.asp

the titlebar

Specifies whether to display a title bar for the window. This parameter is ignored unless the calling application is an HTML Application or a trusted dialog box. The default is yes.

Lee