Posted by J.O. Aho on 09/25/65 11:40

Christopher Pettet wrote:
> I'm sure this has been asked before but I've just signed up to this
> newsgroup and done a search but can't find anything. What I'm trying to do
> is to send a page from port 80 to port 6999 but I don't want the :6999 bit
> to show in the URL address field. Is it possible to either mask or hide
> this within the header("Location:XXX") call?
>
> In other words, if I enter http://www.mysite.com it finds the site using the
> default port 80 but the information I have is actually on port 6999 so I'm
> redirecting to http://www.mysite.com:6999 but I don't want the :6999 to be
> displayed.

The only trick I know of that could work, is that you make a framed page the
index.html is at the http://www.mysite.com and it includes one frame and the
file is at http://www.mysite.com:6999, this way you won't show your real location.


//Aho

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