How to Get Rid of the Xoom Bar
By Byod

If you are one of the many people that were happy with their Xoom accounts without that ugly frame they call the "XOOM BAR" on your website, then you'll probably want to read this.

Because of Xoom's new offer of unlimited webspace for your website, they had to add something to generate more profits. To do this, they choose to add what they call the "XOOM BAR". The Xoom bar is there for them to sell ad space on your site. But in the process of adding this, they changed from what people all loved, a decent host without any type of banner ad or popup. This frustrated many people, although, as you'll read below, it is quite easy to get rid of.

First you should know, that the actual url to your website on Xoom is:

http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/membername/

NOT

http://members.xoom.com/membername/

If you just go without the /_XOOM/ in the url, it will go through the gateway that Xoom has setup on your account name, this is part of the header. Xoom also put this gateway on all directories within the /_XOOM/ folder. Why did they do it twice? To keep us from finding out how to get rid of the "XOOM BAR".

All you have to do to get rid of the Xoom Bar is target the exact html document of your site, so to get rid of the Xoom Bar do the following : instead of typing in:

http://members.xoom.com/membername/
to reach a website...

type in:
http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/membername/index.html

Voila, no more Xoom Bar.

A graphical look at how this works:



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