ispsetup (was: Re: FreeBSD in Dixons)

[Joe Karthauser]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 08:31:22AM +0000, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > 
> > It would of course be nice to have preferential treatment
> > for FreeBSD-friendly ISPs :) but wouldn't it be more generally
> > applicable to be able to read config info from M$ compatible
> > signup servers?
> 
> Is there any documentation about the format of them?

Yes, but it's pants!
Don't worry about M$ compatible servers - how are you going to find them?
Most of the time the telephone numbers are hard burnt into CDs and not
meant for public consumption.

For those that don't know the M$ signup mechanism consists of a
web mechanism that collects inforation from the user (using html
forms, or whatever the browser can support).  Ultimately the server
sends the user a file with a mime type of 'application/x-internet-signup'.
The IE browser knows to pass this file to some part of the OS that
configures dialup networking, mail, news, etc.

The file looks something like this:

Joe


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Science\NASA Hot Topics.url=http://www.nasa.gov/nasa/nasa_hottopics.html
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Science\Smithsoniam Gem  Mineral Collection.url=http://galaxy.einet.net/images/gems/gems-icons.html
Science\Tree of Life.url=http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html
Science\Views of the Solar System.url=http://bang.lanl.gov/solarsys
Science\Geography Resources on the Internet.url=http://ncgia.geog.buffalo.edu/GIAL/netgeog.html
Shopping\The London Mall.url=http://www.londonmall.co.uk
Shopping\Penguin.url=http://www.penguin.co.uk
Shopping\Christies Auctions.url=http://www.christies.com
Shopping\Bonhams Auction House.url=http://www.bonhams.com/index.html
Shopping\Book Service By Post Limited.url=http://www.bookpost.co.uk/
Shopping\Computer Manuals Online Bookstore.url=http://www.compman.co.uk
Shopping\Dillons of Gower street.url=http://www.dillons.co.uk/
Shopping\Natural History Book Service.url=http://www.nhbs.co.uk/
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Shopping\Antiquarian Book Network.url=http://www.antiquarian.com/
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Shopping\FleuropInterflora.url=http://www.fleurop.nl
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Shopping\Tesco Stores Ltd.url=http://www.tesco.co.uk/
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Shopping\Classic CD.url=http://www.futurenet.co.uk/music/classiccd.html
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Shopping\British Airways.url=http://www.british-airways.com/bans/checkin1.htm
Shopping\British Midland.url=http://www.iflybritishmidland.com
Shopping\Hotel Net.url=http://www.u-net.com/hotelnet/first.htm
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[DeleteChannels]
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[Proxy]
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