Hi all,
A couple of months ago, my boss asked me if it was possible to display an Internet Access Policy when users first launch their browsers without setting the "Home" or "Start" page. His thought was that it should be possible with our current Squid Servers. I searched the mailing list and noticed the question had been asked before but it wasn't possible without some coding. I let him know. The problem bugged me for ages. I do not know how to program in C so writing the necessary code was not an option for me. Also what about sites that do not use a Proxy Server or a server other than Squid. To cut a long story short I developed an application in TCL that I want to share with the Squid community in an effort to give something back and hopefully to help others. The application is called "HeadsUp" and it can display an Internet Access Policy or Message of the Day(MOTD) to users. Browsers need to be configured to use a PAC file and a slight change to any existing PAC file is all that is needed. The PAC file directs the browsers first request to the server which is running "HeadsUp". "HeadsUp" downloads a page which brings up a Popup window and causes the browser to reload the page again to load the real page. "HeadsUp" is available from http://www.freewebs.com/headsup It is built on Tclhttpd a webserver in written pure TCL and packaged as a Starkit. It runs on Windows, Linux, HP-UX, Tru64 and Solaris. Easy to install, just copy 2 files to your system and run. No compiling necessary. To uninstall delete the 2 files! Enjoy! Kind Regards Jeff Smith P.S. Can a link be added to http://www.squid-cache.org/related-software.html __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
