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Web Forwarding How does it all work?

By vujsa, in Computer Networks

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vujsa
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I was wondering how web forwarding works.

 

What I know:

If the target address is http://www.foo.com/

 

And if http://www.foo.net/ is set to forward to the target

 

Then entering http://www.foo.net/ will forward to http://www.foo.com/. This forwarding method actually change the address in the browsers address bar.

ie. Typing http://www.intel.com/buy/us/en/ forwards to http://www.intel.de/content/www/de/de/homepage.html

 

If a mask is used in addition to the forward then the address bar doesn't change. The domain name typed in the address bar remains the same but the content is from the target domain. It is like having 2 identical web sites but in fact there is only one domain with content and the other domain only pretends to be the originals identical twin.

 

Here's what I want to know:

Can the target domain be a sub-domain?

If masking is used, do all of the internal links need to be relational links?

Does the refering domain and target domain need to be on the same server?

One parked and one hosted?

Where can I get forwarding service other that NetSol?

Any help would be great.

 

Thanks, :)

vujsa

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its done in html tags and javascript..

here is the html code of the http://www.sane-project.org/ page which re-directs to http://sane-project.org/

<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"><html><head>	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">	<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="10; URL=http://http://www.sane-project.org/;	<title>HTML REDIRECT</title></head><body><h1>SANE web site moved</h1><p>Please update your bookmarks.  The new SANE web-site is at:<center><font size=+1><a href="http://http://www.sane-project.org/ should be redirected to the new site in 10 seconds.  Click <ahref="http://http://www.sane-project.org/; to visit to the new siteimmediately.</body></html>

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Hey, thanks for the reply. That's a great tip!Unfortunatly it was late when I typed the question and looking back I realize I didn't make myself very clear.I was looking for information about domain forwarding and not HTML forwarding.With the domain forwarding, the refering domain doesn't have to be hosted, just parked. With HTML forwarding, the refering domain has to be hosted and well as the target domain.I wanted an all roads lead to Rome type setup and not all roads lead to an airport where you can catch a plane to Rome.Network Solutions offers this type of forwarding and masking. But I wanted more information and their website isn't very descriptive on the subject.Sorry for the confusion. I hope this clarifies my question.Thank you, :) vujsa

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