Cloaking
A documentation of all known URL cloaking methods.
Install / Use
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URL Cloaking
URL cloaking is the act of hiding the actual domain name of a website from the URL field of a user's web browser.
Methods
- About Blank
- Data URL
- Blob URL
About Blank
The About Blank method uses the window.open() function to open a new blank tab with the URL of about:blank.
Data URL
The data URL method uses data urls as the name sugests to display content through the content type text/html, an example of a data url is data:text/html;charset=utf8,Hello%20World.
Blob URL
The blob URL method is similar to the Data URL method, it uses JavaScript's built in Blob class in order to generate a file-like object that can then be viewed by the user.
Have another method? Make an issue or pull request.
