[PHP/HTML]: URL Masking

I want to know about the advantages and disadvantages of URL masking. Does it 开发者_开发百科really make sense from security point of view?

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From a security point of view you are using the security trough obscurity principle which by itself is not safe at all.

The only 'safety' aspect you are going to get is that users are more unlikely to tamper with the URL.