[Javascript] URL Display

Flavio Gomes flavio at economisa.com.br
Fri Sep 10 16:25:48 CDT 2004


Grinwald, Uri escreveu:

>This might not be javascript related but I thought you might be ble to
>point me in the right direction. 
>I was visiting a website and noticed that in the Address bar I see a
>path with the ending of what seems to be a directory folder i.e.
>www.companyname.com/company.
>How come there is no extension dispalying like .html .jsp .asp ?
>Is it because the files are labelled as index or default under that
>folder?
>That is what I thought until I came across these...
>Which happen to be unde rthe same directory /company.
>How can I achieve the same results ?
>http://www.thindata.com/company/
>http://www.thindata.com/company/management_profiles/
>http://www.thindata.com/company/media_information/
>
>Thanks in advance
>Uri
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  Most probably: Yes, that is a folder and the webserver reads some 
default file in that folder.

  But nothing would stop it from being a PHP or anyother server-side 
scripting language.. maybe the guy simply wanted to hide the extension 
for security reasons


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Flavio Gomes
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