Browser URL Spoof

[lukasbradley]

What is the best way to spoof a client-side browser URL?

This is not a malicious intent, and will have the consent of both websites. Assume a media package is being held on site B, in a subdirectory. We want the end user to think they are on site A (the client), while actually viewing the full content on site B.

For example, we need

http://siteA.com/look

to spoof to

http://siteB.com/some/where/far/down/here

without using DNS entries, or redirect scripts.

Creating a frameset HTML on siteA is an option, but we are looking for a better solution. Any ideas?

Lukas

[Apollo]

Using apache's rewrite function would work for you if all the links on site B are relative. hahahahahahas is another alternative (although you already mentioned that).

Option 3 would be to use a server side script to grab the page from site B and then display it to your user.

[lukasbradley]

What is hahahahahahas ? Or is that an admin blanking out something you wrote?

Lukas

[SandraB]

If you use Linux/Apache - You could symlink (symbolic link) the catalog
http://siteB.com/some/where/far/down/here
to
http://siteA.com/look ie http://siteA.com/look/here

Very easy...

Good luck

[gavster]

You could also use a simple PHP script to parse the URL and deliver your content accordingly.

If you are using apache, you can add this to your virtual host container in httpd.conf:

<Location /look>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Location>

Then name your php script "look" (just look, not look.php - keep the file extension off) and drop that into your document root.

Apache will execute that script anytime the resource http://www.yourdomain.com/look - or anything under it like http://www.yourdomain.com/look/over/here - is requested.

In the script, you can do a simple redirect, or just build a dynamic page with the content from site B, whatever. It's all handled in your script, leaving a nice, clean URI for the surfers to see

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