What is URL Masking?

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URL Masking means that the visitors to the domain name will be forwarded to your destination website, however the URL in their browser address bar will remain the same. Also known as Stealth Redirection or URL Hiding, this will ensure that your visitors see the orignal domain name and not the destination URL
For eg If your website is hosted at http://www.megrihost.com/Virtual_Pri...s_servers.html. You choose to forward it to http://www.megrisoft.com/services/ s...rivate_server/ . Then if you enable URL Masking, your visitors will never see http://www.megrihost.com/Virtual_Pri...s_servers.html as a URL in their browser address bar.

How does URL Masking work?
In case of URL Masking the Domain Forwarding server sends the client a Frames page where the Frame Source contains the destination URL you have specified. This ensures that the URL in the address bar of the browser does not change though the client sees the destination page.

[Mohit Rana]

URL masking, also known as URL cloaking or stealth redirection, is a technique used to display a different URL in the address bar of a web browser while actually loading content from another URL.

Here's how it works:

1. A user enters a specific URL into their web browser.
2. The web server processes the request and fetches content from a different URL.
3. The content from the different URL is displayed in the user's browser, but the original URL remains visible in the address bar.

This technique is often used for various purposes, including:

1. Hiding affiliate links: Affiliates may use URL masking to hide the affiliate tracking parameters in the URL and make the link appear more user-friendly.
2. Branding: Companies may use URL masking to maintain their branding by displaying their own domain in the address bar instead of a third-party domain.
3. Redirection: Website owners may use URL masking to redirect traffic from one URL to another while keeping the original URL visible.