How to make URL cloaking

Hi Everybody,

I have a small question about URL cloaking, am working on an idea of
creating URL cloaking system, this is that my users can get cloaked
URLs for their long URLs in other words, if you have URL like this:
http://www.yourdomain.com/folder1/folder2/page.extension?gshagaoj=dsfd+dfs
this link after cloaking may look like this: http://www.mydomain.com/page.htm
for example

I read on somewhere that this could be used using:
<?php
header("Location:http://www.yourdomain.com/page.extension?sdfs
+sdf=he3");
exit();
?>

but this URL code on one of my pages takes me to the location
specified in the code, and in the address bar the url found is
http://www.yourdomain.com/page.extension?sdfs+sdf=he3 not my own URL
hiding the other location (your URL)


Please help me how this works if anyone know

Thanks in advance

shror

On Jan 24, 3:23 pm, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> shror wrote:
> > Hi Everybody,
>
> > I have a small question about URL cloaking, am working on an idea of
> > creating URL cloaking system, this is that my users can get cloaked
> > URLs for their long URLs in other words, if you have URL like this:
> >http://www.yourdomain.com/folder1/folder2/page.extension?gshagaoj=dsf...
> > this link after cloaking may look like this:http://www.mydomain.com/page.htm
> > for example
>
> > I read on somewhere that this could be used using:
> > <?php
> > header("Location:http://www.yourdomain.com/page.extension?sdfs
> > +sdf=he3");
> > exit();
> > ?>
>
> > but this URL code on one of my pages takes me to the location
> > specified in the code, and in the address bar the url found is
> >http://www.yourdomain.com/page.extension?sdfs+sdf=he3not my own URL
> > hiding the other location (your URL)
>
> Which is exactly how it should be. The Location header instructs the
> browser to request the page from the new URL. And the browser will
> display the new URL.
>
>
>
> > Please help me how this works if anyone know
>
> > Thanks in advance
>
> > shror
>
> The obvious question would be - why would you ever try to fool your
> users like this?
>
> You would have to serve the page from your site (i.e. with cURL).
>
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Hi Jerry,

Thanks for your quick reply,
Am not trying to fool my users but what I want to do is to create
something like the short URL maker so that you can get small URL from
my website to use it with long ones at your own website, or to hide
the real URL if its long with a small one, so my whole idea is a free
service nothing more.