Webserver setting to hide the file name in the browser.

Hi everyone. I'm trying to determine if the "setting" that is discussed below actually exists. One of our clients im'd and the following is abridged version of the conversation that followed.

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Client: i think it's on the server side but when the user goes to different pages can you make it so the user just see's www.mydomain.com and not www.mydomain.com/index.htm productions.htm etc....etc....

Me: in the address bar you mean? you don't want them to see what page they are looking at?

Client: correct

Client: i'm not quite sure where that option is in apache.... i work with iis so i know where it is in there.

Me: Do you know what the setting is called in IIS? I've never heard of a feature that hides the page you're visiting that is server side. Do you know of a website that does this now that I can look at?

Client: in iis i believe it's under properties of the url site i don't have iis on this system it's at work

Client: i know it's there because i had to do it on an intranet site that i had to design
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There were two things I could think of that would cause this to happen, 1) put the site in one large html frame and 2) a flash only website.

But this client seems pretty sure that there is a server side setting to do this, at least in IIS. For all the IIS gurus, what is this setting called (if it indeed exists) and for the Apache gurus, is there a comparable setting in Apache?

 

 

 

 

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