Hiding url redirects

Question

Hi all,
I am using UNIX(SUNOS) with iplanet 6.1 webserver with IE 6 browser on user end. The NSAPI application i am developing recieves a request with a certain string https://MYWEBSERVER/mystring and in the nametrans stage i replace this url with https://OTHERWEBSERVER/newstring?whatever and i redirect the request from MYWEBSERVER to a different webserver OTHERWEBSERVER that is i am doing an url redirect to another server. But the problem is that the url shows up on the address bar. Is there any elegant way to not let it show up on the address bar. By elegant i mean that it should not show up whatever i do to the browser(like pressing a back button or doing a refresh or anything.
code:
protocol_status(sn, rq, PROTOCOL_REDIRECT, NULL);
pblock_nvinsert("url", newurl, rq->vars);
return REQ_ABORTED;
Thanks in advance,
Kind Regards,
Nitin Soman

Answer 1

Thank you very much for the reply.
Where and how do i implement the reverse proxy.
the NSAPI plugin does some extra things like doing some cookie validations and changing the url and redirected.
Is it possible to do in case of reverse proxy?
Also will it affect the functionality of the current server.. i mean whether any changes required in the server which will affect its current functionality?