[jQuery] Re: Is it possible to hide the destination URL of a link?

I think you could do something like the following:

<a href="whatever you want in here" class="id-123">Delete</a>

<script type="text/javascript">
$("a").click(function() {
var id = $(this).attr("class").split("-")[1];
this.href = "/?delete=true&id=" + id;
});
</script>

But this isn't really the solution you want to go with.

Firstly, if you're using links to delete things, what happens if a bot
somehow gets into your site and starts clicking on all those links?
I've heard of people having there admin areas indexed by Google and
all sorts of hell breaking lose!

Make this sort of action happen via a POST request, not a GET.

If in your application deletions should only be done by certain
people, check this in your code before deleting.

Secondly, to solve the issue of a refresh happening and causing an
error, relocate back to the page after you have deleted the item.

You're right to be worried about this, I know that if I saw a URL
with ?action=delete&id=101 in, I'd be tempted to give ?
action=delete&id=102, ?action=delete&id=103, ?action=delete&id=104 a
try too! ;O)

On Jul 31, 12:49 am, Anoop kumar V <anoopkum...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a menu, on which is a delete link. The URL of the link is quite
> plain:http://mysite.com?delete=true&id=123
> (quite obvious I think that the request is to delete the id=123)
>
> I wish to hide the destination URL in the browser from the user - so that it
> shows a harmless url like:http://mysite.com?#or similar. The reasons are
> more aesthetic than anything else. Also the other advantage is once the user
> clicks on the link, and then hits on refresh, the request gets posted again
> and because the id=123 has already been deleted, it will just generate an
> error.. Does that make sense?
>
> I dont mind using ajax for this - but would love if I could get both options
> - ajax and non-ajax.
>
> Thanks,
> Anoop