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| Firefox Keywords; And address masking? | |
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| Topic Started: Jun 27 2009, 04:37 AM (301 Views) | |
| IceMetalPunk | Jun 27 2009, 04:37 AM Post #1 |
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I have an idea for a little YouTube miniseries that's just starting to form (if you search YouTube for "X89 IceMetalPunk" you'll find my test video....much lower quality than I expect the real version to be). In part of the storyline, the main character, X89, will have to look up online a fictitious company called Bentley Genetics, Inc. Since this company doesn't exist, neither does its website. I was thinking of using Firefox's bookmark keywords feature to fake a bentleygenetics.com website. I've already gotten it set up so that typing bentleygenetics.com in my address bar redirects to a local file--my fake website. Here's the problem: after the redirect, the address in the address bar changes immediately, showing it's a local file. Is there any way to mask the address, so that when I type bentleygenetics.com in my address bar, that stays while the local file is displayed? Like I said, I'm using Firefox's bookmark keywords feature to do the redirecting...if that helps. -IMP  
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| Dale | Jun 29 2009, 11:48 AM Post #2 |
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Possibly try this, (?) <META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="0;URL=http://bentleygenetics.com"> Edited by Dale, Jun 29 2009, 11:49 AM.
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| Aeroice | Jun 29 2009, 12:15 PM Post #3 |
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If it's a .php file, you can also redirect it from there using the header... Of course, I may have done something wrong there; I'm not very good with PHP. You could also use javascript: Past that, you could use the <meta> tag Dale posted.. I don't know offhand of any other ways, though. |
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| IceMetalPunk | Jul 1 2009, 12:35 AM Post #4 |
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No, you both misunderstand me. I have no problem with the redirect; in fact, that's done already. What I need is for the address bar not to show the redirect. For example, I have it set up so that bentleygenetics.com redirects to something like file:///C:/Users/IceMetalPunk/Documents/test.html. That's the right page, so that's fine. However, when this redirect occurs, I want the address bar to still display bentleygenetics.com as if it's a real website. -IMP
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| Aeroice | Jul 1 2009, 12:48 AM Post #5 |
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You could try to use frames. Edit: more specifically, iframes (or inline frames.) Edited by Aeroice, Jul 1 2009, 12:50 AM.
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| nahnahnah | Jul 1 2009, 10:30 AM Post #6 |
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would that not be a security issue if web browsers allowed you to do that? |
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| IceMetalPunk | Jul 3 2009, 12:32 AM Post #7 |
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@Aeroice: Wouldn't that require me to still have the domain? The frames only mask the inner frame's URL with the outer...if the outer is not the registered domain, no masking will occur. @nahnahnah: I'm not sure what you mean. Why would masking the URL to a local file on my computer be a security risk? -IMP
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| nahnahnah | Jul 3 2009, 04:26 PM Post #8 |
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what I mean is that, if it's possible to mask local file URLs, it would be possible to mask remote URLs as well, which would be great news for phishers. |
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| Aeroice | Jul 3 2009, 04:54 PM Post #9 |
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That would require you to have the domain. If you had at bentleygenetics.com a frame that contained the file path on their computer, then they would think that it was on their website. That being said, the whole process wouldn't work well. Many people don't run their browser in admin mode - so off the bat you've got to have the file in a location where any browser on any OS can access it - and then you still have to account for if they have Vista or XP. In Vista, the privileges of the browser matter; in XP, they don't matter so much. There are methods of password protecting files if you have a little PHP experience; would this be more suitable to your needs? You could host everything on a single page and have a password on the front to protect it. I'm sure one of the more experienced PHP users on this board - since I'm definitely not - could point you in the right direction for this. |
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| IceMetalPunk | Jul 3 2009, 06:09 PM Post #10 |
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Insane Graphics Designer/Coder...and by "insane" I mean psychologically
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@nahnahnah: I'm only masking it on my comouter, not for anyone else...the site doesn't even exist. Firefox is just set up to redirect bentleygenetics.com, on MY COMPUTER only, to the local file. @Aeroice: I think somewhere along the line there is a huge miscommunication. I do not own bentleygenetics.com, nor does anyone. It is a nonexistent, completely fictional domain name. I'm just making a video, and I want it to seem like it's a real website for a fictional company in the video. I'm not interested in security. All files are local, so I have no reason to worry. Not to mention all the info on the "site" is fake anyway, so even if someone got a hold of it, it doesn't matter. Perhaps no one understands what I mean. Go into Firefox->Bookmarks->Organize Bookmarks. Go to the keywords folder and in there, right-click and click "New Bookmark". Under "Name", enter "Bentley Genetics, Inc.". Under "location", enter "http://www.google.com", and under "keyword" enter "www.bentleygenetics.com". Save it and then navigate to www.bentleygenetics.com and you'll be redirected to google instead. Notice that without that keyword bookmark, bentleygenetics.com does not exist. This is all what I have now, only with the local file instead of google. However, you'll notice that after the redirection, "bentleygenetics.com" disappears and is replaced by the redirected URL (in the example case, google.com). I want my video to seem real, so I want it to stay as "bentleygenetics.com". If this is impossible, I'll have to fake it in After Effects, but it seems like it should be possible. -IMP
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| Aeroice | Jul 3 2009, 06:26 PM Post #11 |
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Oh. Well. Then no, there sadly is not way to do this that I can think of. |
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| nahnahnah | Jul 3 2009, 07:23 PM Post #12 |
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oh jeez, I'm aware of that. what I'm trying (very desperately) to say is that if web browsers allowed people to use scripts to mask the URL they were looking at with something else that seems completely benign, a phisher's life would be much easier as they could disguise their website as ebay.com or something. anything you can do locally can be done remotely. |
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| IceMetalPunk | Jul 4 2009, 10:52 PM Post #13 |
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That is not true. You can't set keywords remotely, can you? @Aeroice: Oh, well. I suppose After Effects post-editing it is... -IMP
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