Hiding URL extensions
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Every once in a while i come across websites that hide their extensions, and have 'different' ways of expressing parameters to a URL than what i'm used to. E.g. "www.somedomain.com/38896O51d93b015ef98a0b/play?g=1668370" or "www.somedomain.com/iyt.dll?a?s=1&g=15300019557591&m=13" First question: Is the purpose of this to help prevent hacking? That is if the hacker doesn't know what technology is being used it is harder to hack?!!? Or is there another reason? Second question: How can i do this?
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Every once in a while i come across websites that hide their extensions, and have 'different' ways of expressing parameters to a URL than what i'm used to. E.g. "www.somedomain.com/38896O51d93b015ef98a0b/play?g=1668370" or "www.somedomain.com/iyt.dll?a?s=1&g=15300019557591&m=13" First question: Is the purpose of this to help prevent hacking? That is if the hacker doesn't know what technology is being used it is harder to hack?!!? Or is there another reason? Second question: How can i do this?
snoman2 wrote: First question: Is the purpose of this to help prevent hacking? That is if the hacker doesn't know what technology is being used it is harder to hack?!!? Or is there another reason? For both personal reasons and security through obscurity...whatever works right :) snoman2 wrote: Second question: How can i do this? You probably have to change some config settings for your web server and scripting language. How do I print my voice mail?
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Every once in a while i come across websites that hide their extensions, and have 'different' ways of expressing parameters to a URL than what i'm used to. E.g. "www.somedomain.com/38896O51d93b015ef98a0b/play?g=1668370" or "www.somedomain.com/iyt.dll?a?s=1&g=15300019557591&m=13" First question: Is the purpose of this to help prevent hacking? That is if the hacker doesn't know what technology is being used it is harder to hack?!!? Or is there another reason? Second question: How can i do this?
They do this because the page (or file) you are looking for is in a database. And in the case of music, many sites do that to prevent you from illegally downloading the music. So to answer your question, yes it is sometimes done to make it harder for hackers. And sometimes, it's just because their page is dynamically created from a database. Aaron Eldreth TheCollective4.com My Articles While much is too strange to be believed, Nothing is too strange to have happened. - T. Hardy