如何在地址栏中显示一个不同的地址？

Question

I have a DNS, and each computer has a website to make different folders / documents accessible in a different way than just browsing to that computer. For example, \\Media takes me to the media servers pages (Music, Movies, etc.), and \\Aurora takes me to the media server's website. Instead of it displaying "Aurora" in the address bar, however, I would like to use a script to replace it with "Aurora - Media Server Website, (server information)." I would really like to learn this method, I tried to look somewhere and it mentioned JavaScript would probably be the easiest way to do this. This would be helpful if I actually knew JavaScript =p If there is an easier way to do this, that would also be much appreciated =]

In a nutshell, I want the address of a website, //Aurora, hosted on a local DNS server to appear as "Aurora - Media Server Website (server information)." What would be a possible way to implement this?

Answer 1

Just use the replaceState method of window.history in JavaScript like so:

window.history.replaceState({}, '', url);

(params are: data (object), title (string), url (string));

I do it all the time to modify the URL, to remove the query string when using AJAX.

Answer 2

If you want to change the hostname then you have to change the DNS so that the machine gets the name you want. You can't use spaces or parenthesis in hostnames though.

The closest you can come with JS is the history API which only lets you modify the local part of the URI.

Answer 3

It is not possible to change the contents of the address bar due to security reasons (Phishing websites would exploit this heavily).

I would suggest simply changing the title of the page.

<title>Title goes here</title>

If you want to change it using javascript (for some reason) you can do this:

document.title = "The new title goes here.";