Techniques for providing long uniform resource locators through a secure environment

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that upon execution cause a system to:

• receive a request from a web browser in a client device to access a web resource through a zero trust network environment, wherein the web resource is external to the zero trust network environment, the request includes a first uniform resource locator (URL), and the web resource includes a second URL having a first domain name of a domain outside the zero trust network environment;
• fetch the web resource based on the first URL;
• translate the second URL in the web resource to an alternate URL having a second domain name of a domain in the zero trust network environment, wherein the alternate URL has a first length;
• determine a type of the web browser, and a URL length threshold representing a URL length supported by the type of the web browser;
• determine whether the first length of the alternate URL exceeds the URL length threshold;
• based on determining that the first length of the alternate URL exceeds the URL length threshold, generate a shortened alternate URL based on at least a portion of the alternate URL, the shortened alternate URL comprising the second domain name followed by a hash value produced by a hash function applied on the at least a portion of the alternate URL;
• generate an alternate resource in which the shortened alternate URL is included as a replacement for the second URL;
• and
• provide the alternate resource from the system to the client device.

A system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-transitory storage medium storing instructions executable on the processor to:
• receive a request from a web browser in a client device to access a web resource through a zero trust network environment, wherein the web resource is external to the zero trust network environment, the request includes a first uniform resource locator (URL), and the web resource includes a second URL having a first domain name of a domain outside the zero trust network environment;
• fetch the web resource based on the first URL;
• translate the second URL in the web resource to an alternate URL having a second domain name of a domain in the zero trust network environment, wherein the alternate URL has a first length;
• determine a type of the web browser, and a URL length threshold representing a URL length supported by the type of the web browser,
• determine whether the first length of the alternate URL exceeds the URL length threshold;
• based on determining that the first length of the alternate URL exceeds the URL length threshold, generate a shortened alternate URL based on at least a portion of the alternate URL, the shortened alternate URL comprising the second domain name followed by a hash value produced by a hash function applied on the at least a portion of the alternate URL;
• generate an alternate resource in which the shortened alternate URL is included as a replacement for the second URL;
• and
• provide the alternate resource from the system to the client device.