Burying (hiding) the affiliate link code?

[Simon]

Hiya,

I'm looking for the best way to ensure that more experienced surfers can't just snip the end off a Free Hosted Site URL and cause an affiliate to lose credit for their signup. Ideally we'd want to send surfers who snipped a URL to a page where all the links still had the affiliate code which had been 'buried' down further in the original URL.

I know I read it here somewhere but none of my searches have turned up the thread I'm looking for. In the thread there was a discussion of constructing links to Free Hosted Sites, and the poster (I can't remember who it was) showed how to put the affiliate code inside what appeared to be a directory address instead of at the end of the link as a query string.

Something like this I think:

http : // www . site . com / affiliateID / hosted_gallery_index.html

Then there was the part I'm not sure about, which I think was the matching htaccess file code and a sample index page.

Does anyone remember the thread that had that post? Or maybe remember posting it yourself?

TIA for any help,

Simon