[geeks] setting browser default home page

[Will Mc Donald]

An IE-ism only...

http://www.netspade.com/articles/javascript/homepage

A brief scoot round the web hasn't turned up anything more generic. No hold
on, some more pointers here.

http://builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/0-7690-8-5934478-7.html


----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Chase" <echase at postoffice.providence.edu>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 7:03 PM
Subject: [geeks] setting browser default home page


> A web portal site that we had a relationship with closed up last week and
> due to a promotion they did on campus last week there are potentially
> hundreds of students whose browsers are set to their site as the default
> home page.
>
> I had gotten several phone calls w/ students complaining that "the
internet
> is down".  I now have a web redirection going at our firewall.  Any web
> request to their site is redirected to an internal web page that displays
a
> letter from the company explaining their shutdown.  What I'd like to
> include on that page is a "Click here to change your default homepage to
> www.providence.edu"
>
> Can this be done in JavaScript?  I'm looking around for a script, but am
> having troubles finding anything like this.