Space Domain

Webfuse allows you to customize the domain under which the platform operates, providing the flexibility to run the original application under your own domain name.

Custom Domain

Typically, when augmenting an application running on “http://example.com”, the new domain would be something like “example-com.webfuse.com”. However, with custom domain mapping, you can modify this to reflect your own domain name, such as “example-com.mydomain.com.” This has two major benefits: The augmented application is now recognized as first-party, allowing it to bypass restrictions that typically apply to third-party domains, such as cookie access and security policies. Secondly Webfuse automatically makes the content modifiable and embeddable, overriding any restrictions that the original application may have placed on iframe embedding or UI modifications.

Domain Mangling

Webfuse can also generate unique domain names for each individual virtual web session. This enables you to create augmented versions of applications that appear as distinct and unrelated URLs, providing additional privacy and reducing potential security risks. For example, an augmented version of “http://example.com” might appear as “d35ab8f1-f50f-41e6-b76d-7481e6c43783.webfuse.com” in one session and “b11b9799-a0fc-4b67-8e46-e87fd418bc3e.webfuse.com” in another.

This randomized domain mapping has significant implications:

Unique Sessions
Each virtual session is unique to the browser, enhancing privacy by preventing cookies set during one web session from being passed to another session. The drawback is that browser caching won’t be utilized, potentially leading to reduced performance.
DNS Obfuscation By encoding the target domain, this approach prevents “browsing leakage.” through DNS lookups. Since DNS requests no longer expose target domains.

Use Cases

🚀 Embed Third Party Content

🚀 Preventing Tracking & Fingerprinting

Getting Started

Open the Session Editor then go to Settings -> Virtual Session -> URL Mangling.

If you would like to define your own domain for a Webfuse Space, please contact us at sales@webfuse.com.