web page to enable users to see wifi hot spot splash screen

[rkingda]

Hi Guys, I'm quite new here, just joined to hopefully get an answer to this question.

I have been given the following problem to solve by my manager:

When users require to connect to public wifi some display a splash page (login/disclaimer) where the user needs to click on an acceptance/login button. Once the user has click on the acceptance/login button the machine is connected to the internet.
In order to access this wifi splash page its address needs to be in the IE proxy exeptions list, obviously we cannot to put all the various different splash page addresses in the proxy exeptions.

Possible Solution:

Turn off the proxy server in IE until the user has processed the wifi slash screen.
So process would be:
Turn proxy off
Open a web page and wait for wifi splash screen
When splash screen page closed, turn proxy on


Can a HTML page be produced with the relevant embedded code to do this?

Anyone have any ideas how I go about doing this? I have searched forums, googled the issue and still not found any answers.

 

[carnageX]

Don't believe a webpage itself would be able to accomplish this. You would need some kind of script to run on the machine (something like Java, ActiveX, or a utility the user has to run after downloading from the webpage which would then re-launch the page).

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

Why something so complicated for something that should be simple?