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Re: Content Injection Appliance


From: Josh Richards <jrichard () cubicle net>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:49:07 -0800

* shane <shane () bratnet net> [20010328 12:38]:

I need someones help, I saw a product at ISPCON Fall in 
CA. And the product allowed me to have it operate on my core routers
and watch web traffic and allow me to "Inject" a "pop-up add" or a 
service anouncement.

On your core routers?  That'd seem like a bad idea...perhaps at the edge
(like your customer concentrators) but I digress.. 

What I want to do is set up this box to watch web traffic, and when a new
user logs in it checks to see "for example" if he has new mail on our
mail-server, and pop-up a little window on his/her screen alerting them
about this. But I don't want to make the user be required to use our home
page as the start page.

From what you're asking for I'm not sure why you'd need to watch their
Web traffic.  Just watch their log-in, likely less hassle and requires no
funniness on backbone routers.

Can anyone tell me the name of this product, I am already aware of
FrontPorch and their product would work, but they require me to allow them
to to advertising to my customers, I don't want that. 

Try list () inet-access net.  Honestly, that list has a lot of access providers
and likely several are doing what you describe who can offer you some 
assistance.  I've seen it done and it's a fairly straightforward concept
(just requires a small client app on the end-user host) but I've never had
to do it myself.
  List info:
    To: list-request () inet-access net
    Body: subscribe

-jr

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Josh Richards [JTR38/JR539-ARIN]
<jrichard () geekresearch com/cubicle.net/fix.net/freedom.gen.ca.us>
Geek Research LLC - <URL:http://www.geekresearch.com/>
IP Network Engineering and Consulting

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