It wouldn't be useful for most people, but for an intranet application where a regular 
PC would be overkill, it made sense to use thin clients, and even more sense to use 
touchscreens and toss the keyboard and mouse (we have space constraints in the packing 
stations as it is, there was no way that the engineers would give us room for 
luxuries! :-)

Simon

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Lowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 1:59 PM
>To: Struts Users Mailing List
>Subject: Re: Is there a way to prevent urls from being entered from the
>browser?
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>
>So to "prevent urls from being entered from the browser" all you have 
>to do is take the keyboard and mouse out the equation.
>
>Nice solution I can see how that would be useful for most folk's.
>
>
>On 29 Dec 2003, at 19:48, Chappell, Simon P wrote:
>
>> Nope. There is no keyboard and no mouse. :-)
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Mark Lowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 1:41 PM
>>> To: Struts Users Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: Is there a way to prevent urls from being entered from 
>>> the
>>> browser?
>>>
>>>
>>> Is like the one in virgin stores where you can ctrl+esc and get the
>>> menu/desktop up?
>>>
>>>
>>> On 29 Dec 2003, at 19:30, Chappell, Simon P wrote:
>>>
>>>> Oh that's far too clever!
>>>>
>>>> We just used thin-client terminals locked in kiosk mode with I.E.
>>>> running in full screen, using touch screens and taking away the
>>>> keyboard and mouse. Ha ha ... now try typing in a URL!!! :-)
>>>>
>>>> Simon
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Brice Ruth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>> Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 1:09 PM
>>>>> To: Struts Users Mailing List
>>>>> Subject: Re: Is there a way to prevent urls from being 
>entered from
>>>>> the
>>>>> browser?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> In theory, you could write a filter for the forwards that
>>>>> would check to
>>>>> see if a REFERER is set for the request. If not, the request
>>>>> was likely
>>>>> entered directly in a browser.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jim Anderson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> To clarify: I would like to be able to define
>>> ActionForwards for use
>>>>>> within the app but which cannot be entered directly into
>>> the browser
>>>>>> by the user. Is this possible?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> jim
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>> Brice D. Ruth
>>>>> Sr. IT Analyst
>>>>> Fiskars Brands, Inc.
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