Anyway, the other option to handling this is to force/beg/request that
your users use a proxy webserver. If, then, you really feel the need to
get them to look at a certain page, you could configure the proxy to just
feed them that page.
Bad plan, for the reasons MegaZone discusses below, but it's a more
reasonable way of doing it.
-Dave Andersen
Lo and behold, MegaZone once said:
>
> Once upon a time Paul Castro. shaped the electrons to say...
> >How can we force a page on our own users, overriding wherever they are
> >browsing at the time?
>
> You can't - a browser will not accept a page it did not request. HTTP is
> a TCP based protocol, so the browser *must* initiate the request. You can
> try to force feed HTTPD responses all day and the browser will never accept
> them.
>
> >It sounds like a job for Server Push, but what if it was not requested?
>
> Won't work.
>
> >Any ideas out there..?
>
> This has been asked many, many times in the W3C and HWG mailing lists,
> as well as the various newsgroups.
>
> They only possibility is to intercept a valid HTTP request from the user,
> *spoof* the servers IP, and send a reply.
>
> Which would mean:
> 1. Sniffing your network for the appropriate packet.
> 2. Somehow intercepting the request so the *real* server doesn't respond.
> 3. Causing one of your own servers to spoof the IP and name of the real
> server and feed a page with the requested name but your own content.
>
> This is:
> A: Sleezy - if my provider did this I'd be gone so fast their lines would
> burn.
> B: A lot more trouble than it is worth.
>
> And, of course, HTML soon will have the ability to do MD5 signatures on
> URLs - try spoofing that.
>
> -MZ
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