the ip address that i need to link to has no domain name associated with it. it was being used as a remote access computer until this project. i had thought that once a computer had a static ip address then this would be ok even without a domain name but i am not sure if there is a way around it.
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>>hi all,
>>not sure what category this should go in so thought that we could chat about it in here:) I have a customer who has a web site hosted with a service provider. now they want to have that site modified slightly so that it links into a system that we developed for them. they cannot host the site themselves so the main part still has to reside on the hosting site. i am going to have a page that uses frames so that one side of the frame comes from the hosted server and the other from their server. the site has a static ip address but not a web address. in the frames page if i have

src="http://www.mysite.com/index.htm"

everything is fine but if i have

src="http://123.123.123.123/index.htm"

it does not work and i have to use the ip address to link into their local webserver. make sence? any help much appreciated
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>Using the UT as an example:
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>http://www.levelextreme.com  --> gets to UT
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>http://levelextreme.com  --> gets to UT, because Michel has levelextreme.com mapped to www.levelextreme.com in DNS somewhere
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>http://205.205.57.4 --> gets to UT, this is the equivalent to the above without using DNS
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>http://www.205.205.57.4 --> fails, I don't know why
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>I think you have 2 choices:
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>1. Set up your domain so that yourdomain.com maps to www.yourdomain.com, then your second URL should work
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>2. There might be (probably is) a syntax for a URL that will let you use #4 above without DNS trying to resolve it to the .4 domain. Offhand I don't know what it is.