Re: [Tclhttpd-users] tclhttpd-configure to set all client website

[Kristoffer L. <se...@fi...>]

On 18 Jun 2007, at 22:25, Conrad Moolman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are a small ISP,and we would like to setup the following for our
> clients.As soon as they open the browser,it must go to our  
> website,but any
> new requests will go to the url they entered.Basically we want to  
> 'force'
> the clients homepage to be our website.

To be honest, I don't believe there is any way you could enforce  
this. Sure, you could, as you say, make the first request always  
redirect to your website, but what if the client configure their web  
browser to give an empty page on startup? Then, when they enter a URL  
they will be highly surprised and confused when it, in fact, brings  
them to your homepage.

Even if you did decide to go that way, the method is not trivial. How  
do you know what is the first request? You do not know when the users  
shuts their browser down. Thus it would certainly not work in all  
cases. What some ISPs do is to see when the client receives an IP  
address via DHCP and then redirect their first HTTP request to the  
ISPs own website. Perhaps this is what you are after. Of course, that  
will only happen when the machine fetches the address.

Tclhttpd might help as part of the solution here, but it would not be  
the whole solution, as you need that redirection in place, probably  
by configuring the routers or tweaking DNS.

As a shameless plug, our company's net gurus could probably make  
something ;-)

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