You could use a redirector with squid. I haven't done this, but I
envision it like this:
When a user requests any page, the redirector checks to see if the line
is up. If it is then the URL is not redirected and the user gets what
they asked for. If the line is not up, the redirector creates a "please
wait" page with a meta refresh of let's say one second. After one
second, the meta refresh points you back to the original link, which
will cause the redirector program to be called again. When the line
finally comes up, the please wait disappears and life goes on. Of
course, you will have to make diald maintain some sort of indicator of
the line state so your redirector program can make use of it.
- Bob Glover
PS. I left out alot of details, and as we all know the devil is in the
details.
Original Message:
> From: "Edward Dekkers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Re: Squid and non-permanent connections
> Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 12:05:19 +0800
> charset="iso-8859-1"
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I was just over at a customer's office who uses WinProxy 3 with NT on a
> dial-up connection. If you go to a site (which dials the modem to bring up
> the link), WinProxy displays a nice HTML message 'Please wait while
> connecting to internet. Once in, the page is grabbed and everything is go.
>
> On other customer's Linux boxes I have set up with diald and Squid, IE sits
> and vegetates with a little message in the status bar (detecting proxy
> settings). Nowhere near as nice.
>
> How would I go about tackling (if at all possible - probly not), for Squid
> to show a temp page like this while it waits for PPP to come up? I assume
> Squid wasn't built for this, but maybe some clever scripting? Any thoughts?
>
> I don't personally care for myself, but for green customers it would be
> nice, as I don't have to answer the 'What's happening now?' and 'It looks
> like IE's frozen' questions.
>
> TIA
>
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> Edward Dekkers (Director)
> Triple D Computer Services Pty. Ltd.
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