Yeah, I was originally planning to get into the problems the framesets cause. I didn't want my post to come across as an actual recommendation, just a possible solution to the stated problem. I'm glad someone else came along and pointed those problems out. I've never been a fan of breaking URLs for marketing and/or branding, which are almost always the reasons given for doing this kind of thing.
And yes, with some work and a decent knowledge of Regular Expression syntax, you can do a very good job of masking the URLs. But, depending on the way the system builds its dynamic URLs, that could be a whole lot of post-processing, to "fix" the internal page URLs, before sending the requested page back to the browser.
Not impossible to do, but potentially a good deal more advanced/complex than the frameset "solution" I posted. If the system is a fully internal Intranet, then the frames way is definitely the quick and dirty way to go. Even though suggesting that actually give me shudders. :)
-Brian On May 20, 2005, at 01:19 PM, Joshua Slive wrote:
On 5/20/05, Brian Hughes '89 <brianvh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:What it sounds like you want to do is wrap the entry page to theegroupware site in a Frameset that has 2 frame rows: 1 that is 100% theheight of the window and the second that is * (which is really 0 height)Yes, this is the usual way of doing this. But note that by doing this, you destroy some very useful attributes of the URL. For example, users will no longer be able to bookmark links to specific messages or places in your forum, and they will no longer be able to grab a link to a particular post and include it in another post or email to a friend. If all the content is private (as it is in gmail), then you may not care. But otherwise, I would highly recommend against this or any other technique of keeping a static URL. If you simply want a nicer-looking URL, then that is easily accomplished with AliasMatch or mod_rewrite.
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