[geeks] setting browser default home page

[Ken Hansen]

Yet another wondrful reason to keep an eye on the Porn
industry!

You can set bookmarks, and I am *quite* sure you can
set homepages as well, but you would have to look at
web page scripts to see for sure...

Enjoy,

Ken

--- Edward Chase <echase at postoffice.providence.edu>
wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
>
---------------------------------------------------------------
>   Edward F. Chase III     |   echase at providence.edu
>   Providence College      |  
> http://www.providence.edu
>   Computer Services       |  
> http://studentweb.providence.edu
>   Providence, RI  02918   |
> 
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=====
Ken
n2vip at yahoo.com

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