I was asked to do a site using frames. My question is, does the browser view the website url or the url of the individual frames or both? The site idea was to be used for someone to go around a web filter. Would using frames do the trick or are filters smart enough to detect this method?
Thank you.

Both

the frameset is loaded from the location of the website, the pages in the frames are loaded from their location.

It uses all the URL's but will only display the main page in the navigation bar:

Example www.yoursite.com/framepage.html

The framepage.html may contain the frames nav.html, content.html and footer.html but the nav bar will only show framepage.html

Is this what you are getting at?

And please try and convince them that frames is really not the best thing to do.

Guys,

Thanks for the replies, but what I need to know, in order to answer my client's question, is whether using frames in this manner will circumvent (sp?) the web filter?

Thanks

Ok,
We don't know what this "web filter" is.
We don't know how it is set up.
We don't know what it is supposed to filter.
We don't know how it filters what it is supposed to filter.
&
We don't know where it is.

So given all those unknowns,
We (the collective we of course) will have absolutely no idea!

There is only one way to know...



Try it and see.

If he means what I think he means, the answer is NO. The browser still has to process the HTTP call for the pages being called into the frames. If an employer or ISP is blocking certain sites, the "filter" will just not allow the called pages to load.