Probably not, here's what I recall from a Dutch (free) provider doing this a while ago. Somehow they tweaked their DNS's to come up with their 'default web page', no matter what page was requested by the user. Look at it this way and you can imagine this works on every OS, not just M$. Michel -----Original Message----- From: Alan Spicer [mailto:aspicer at ifxcorp.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 5:02 PM To: De Schrijver Peter; 'ascend-users at bungi.com' Subject: Re: (ASCEND) Default Web page. * It is going to probably be browser and OS specific. The same thing that works on and MS Windows user, will not likely work on a Mac or Linux (or Solaris for that matter...) user. I seem to remember that some Internet dialers ( DUN in Windows 9x ? ) can be set to run a certain application upon connecting. And assuming that the same company (ISP?) installed the browser also ... It doesn't seem so difficult to get a default web page to come up. If it is a (supposedly) trusted organization or company, then it might not be such a sneaky terrible thing to have their web site come up upon connection to the Internet the first few times a user dials in. I know MS's browsers send you to a particular page right after installing MS IE 5 and such. Creating your own dialer (or settings of MS DUN?) and intalling the browser with a default page, could very well be part of your sign-up CD's installation. On Wed, 09 Aug 2000, De Schrijver Peter wrote: > > > >> Does anyone know of a way to force all > >> incoming PPP connections to automatically > >> run a script on the end users PC that will open a web > >> page? > > > >As a user, I would be *VERY* afraid if my ISP could do this to me, > >especially if there was a documented and supported mecanism! > > I have seen this mechanism on freenet.de Germany (0101901929 login > without username/passwd) , users dial in to the server and > automatically get www.freenet.de in their browsers (upon startup). Most > probably this is not a script but a redirection of the first http > request ... > I do not know how they do it , but would be interested in knowing . > > >-Phil > >++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ > >To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request at bungi.com > >To get FAQ'd: <http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq> > > > > > > i.A. Peter De Schrijver > Leiter Internet- und Carrierservice > Netcom Kassel > > ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ > To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request at bungi.com > To get FAQ'd: <http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq> -- Alan Spicer (InterNIC:AGS14) Systems/Network Administration aspicer at ifxcorp.com [grid square reference: HL65uv] Tel: +1 305-512-1100 x134 Cel: +1 305-525-5914 -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> mQGiBDl4udERBAD+08tDu6acCTe2MeoVAMVGuCNjJI2M1ATL+AJBJBGXZmOgt8LL 8/aT2fnb25E9KEMH1DXIo6N6Bug+kSH+4plXiPfwiCOiOqccqu8zc3PubYUK+727 cksmwspJQiUUmBUrjeSWAKru8fYo7iK0X94s4vBNcwGXNF6lvd9UUaT4iQCg/6Vn K7qCviQGIG/dGmWAbUJKeFEEAIxd61c1bXey6XE1TMmKzeDrt/sYQyulrkMo0ad6 EPtls6fYYmiSH5OqYXj7Xw+eXEk+VouGn/UJSuHJnnHvmdh3nZoLmDELIW5egDWr hkctdFwFE4JFsynTh63VwImNXcDO05HC019ZmmVBK4yyOsH0UqIj0t4TTwxUHGE/ 264OA/9PGIhHN2DYfn7cGawBOqKk99S4oyf+8tHafEts8ZRWkLdFyGeH5l4ujOkt YxWCnZz2KXlGjj5TVAAsz1FDQmAThvv10vs8Oa17R1Catqk0UE6Tb/FcICPqJyXA o4+M660Qld6J1m/3r5en/sZ+9JV3f0ywp031h6mr441Kq0aZkbQhQWxhbiBTcGlj ZXIgPGFzcGljZXJAaWZ4Y29ycC5jb20+iQBOBBARAgAOBQI5eLnRBAsDAgECGQEA CgkQ6csMBqOMpwjCGgCeJLxc2CrmutI20lv6Bww6o+2R4hQAoKjZXEgCVTe+6yC1 uOeXsfa0ITrEuQINBDl4udEQCAD2Qle3CH8IF3KiutapQvMF6PlTETlPtvFuuUs4 INoBp1ajFOmPQFXz0AfGy0OplK33TGSGSfgMg71l6RfUodNQ+PVZX9x2Uk89PY3b zpnhV5JZzf24rnRPxfx2vIPFRzBhznzJZv8V+bv9kV7HAarTW56NoKVyOtQa8L9G AFgr5fSI/VhOSdvNILSd5JEHNmszbDgNRR0PfIizHHxbLY7288kjwEPwpVsYjY67 VYy4XTjTNP18F1dDox0YbN4zISy1Kv884bEpQBgRjXyEpwpy1obEAxnIByl6ypUM 2Zafq9AKUJsCRtMIPWakXUGfnHy9iUsiGSa6q6Jew1XpMgs7AAICB/sGX+VoRxHs 836TdrXLvXfTnjpCmt4KIr/Lz1iHzSI9Z7mNq/nPAWEa1ezuoT9Z1Ib0YHSCZX6g WeMHc0ugOD2gPxSLczzCjJXtO9Sv9/JGG/jihPGiTJVKRAEL5D1yybrzv8R8RrKo Gt6z4Z2z+uJkN4nFoG+E++7jkRpxL6VNjVvPJ5EmNxmw/e5LkDB67rhRaw1TlkUF EKGLp2POmL4bZW+3JgopBEtVdIbZCh8gRxgfvcXvihwX/kpYDOAYkiNjoeXGtYUT 85w7/9KQ08/E0nV1uWAzyzpfllOmvliyQ5MKuhGN/5lzVztznGnI7GMrvWSrvpXr BmZqSs/ilqrGiQBGBBgRAgAGBQI5eLnRAAoJEOnLDAajjKcIYBcAn1Mfr2sZ5Zyv SFSNl913uJ6Peb3AAKCntCg/K0CuBI18gvgAuCsqF4maBg== =E0hT -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request at bungi.com To get FAQ'd: <http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq> ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request at bungi.com To get FAQ'd: <http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq>