On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > I wish I knew enough about the details here to phrase this right, but > anyway: > > I need to test software that uses a browser to control it. That is, > news & web accounts on the server are administratively controlled > through web pages from other machines. (the server runs apache). > > To test this, I need to use a machine that has no access to the world > other than a modem. So it needs to sit as a server, and also run a > session on another machine running a browser to access the server > (though preliminary testing could have the browser on the same machine).
Well, assuming that the browser is one of those that allows the use of <META HTTP_EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0; URL=http://whatever/wherever/";> tags (like, for example, Netscape) tags, you could do what I do and create a page on a server with a static IP that changes automatically each time you dial in. I have a web page describing how I do this (note that at the time the descriptive page was made, I was just making a web page with links to my home machine, rather than redirects, but modifying it should be trivial) The page is reachable from http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html, which also describes something I did with my apache configuration to make it better deal with having a variable IP address - you may want to look into this. If the browser doesn't support those non-standard tags, then at least you can have a page sitting at a known address that maintains a link to your server. DANIEL MARTIN -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
