LINK with another domain

  • Thread starter Thread starter Marina Limeira
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You are talking about hiding a user request, which generally is not
possible. To make the request from your server, you will have to serve
the content. That means you would have to read the file from the remote
server and deliver it to the client. Not practical at all since it uses
twice the bandwidth.

However, you could make a CNAME to the other domain (as long as they
aren't using host headers). For example:

www.700cb.net - Main site
videos.700cb.net points to media.otherhost.com using a CNAME DNS entry

If I link a file to videos.700cb.net/videos/file.wmv, it resolves to
media.otherhost.com/videos/file.wmv.

This trick works if all your media is in one place. If you are trying to
be a portal for other site's content and want to take the credit for it
by keeping it under your URL, that's not practical either.

If the remote site is using host headers, you would need to coordinate
with them to add a host header for your desired hostname
(videos.700cb.net).

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