URL Masking

how do you mask URL

[Scally_Ally]

Hi there,
does anyone know a way to mask a url in the address bar?
i have a site but with not much space on it so i have made a link to the download section for the site on another server but this shows a completely different URL, and subsequently the client does not want this.
I am sure that there is a way to do it but i have not seen it before.
Thanks in advance.
Ally

[Frequent]

You could just open the other page in an iframe so they don't actually leave the site.

Freq---

[Scally_Ally]

Yeah thanks,
I will try it now, the only thing is that i have made the pages and everything is set up and running. Is there not a cheeky piece of php script that could do it for me that i just include at the top of the page?
I have done a little bit of searching on the net but to no avail.
Ally

[ergophobe]

Arrggh. Some net error and my post didn't get submitted. So the briefer version.

- you'll need to mask the status bar message with javascript using onmouseover and onmouseout, setting window.status.

- as for the address bar, that's going to get harder to remove with the coming of IE7 and it's anti-phishing features.

As for making it have a different URL, possibilities are, depending on permissions on the servers and so
- read requested file from external server
- something with cURL
- a rewrite to an external server.

[Scally_Ally]

yeah thanks very much.
I will do some research into these things as im sure i will need it or something similar in the future.
As for this project i have done it as frequent suggested with iframes and it has worked just fine.
Thanks you guys for your help.
Ally