Hi, What about forcing the home-page on the browser? Not full-proof but youre sure the user sees this page a-lot!
Yours, Nico de Haer ----- Original Message ----- From: Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 2:20 PM Subject: Re: Force viewing of web page > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Matheson Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm doing this thing on my network, and I was told > >that I need to find a way to force people to view our > >webpage everytime they log onto the network (or use > >the internet, to be more specific). Anyway, I was > >wondering if their was a way to force Apache (or > >something else) to just send our web-page down once a > >connection was established. > > There is no way for apache to magically know that a user has > started a browser, nor is there a way to 'send' a webpage to > a user, nor is there really a concept of an 'internet session'. > > You will have to force all users to use a proxy server, for example > squid or the apache proxy module. > > Then you will have to figure out a way to let people 'log on' to > the proxy server, and show a default page if they are not 'logged on' > > I don't think there's a standard package to do this - with squid > you could probably write a special redirector module in perl that > redirects all URLs to one page, and from there a CGI script would > run that would put the users IP address in a .db DBM database > which the redirector would read - if the IP address is in the > .db database, don't redirect. Also put a timestamp in the database, > refresh it for every access, and if it's older than 1 hour, invalidate > the entry. > > But it's going to take some custom programming.... I'd say one > or two hours for a squid & perl guru, a few days to a week for > someone who is new to squid and redirector modules, a few months > if you have to learn to program first ;) > > Mike. > -- > "dselect has a user interface which scares small children" > -- Theodore Tso, on debian-devel > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
