Restrict access to URLs?

[MaidintheShade webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Thanks, everybody. In answer to your questions:

- This will be a standalone PC, in the museum, to be used only for accessing the 30 or so WWW research sites chosen by the museum.

- Each approved site's link will be provided, and the PC will have a direct Internet connection.

- Some folks at the museum are concerned that these unsupervised visitor/users will use the PC to surf instead of do research. They want a product that restricts access to only the chosen sites.

Darrel, I guess users can't very well be prevented from using the links they find on one of the approved sites. When I took Lanny's suggestion and examined bonus.com, I saw that one of their techniques was to simply remove the address window from the browser's toolbar. Experimenting with that, I realized that a) preventing the use of an approved site's links would be HARD, but b) without the address window, all a person can do is hop around amongst sites on similar topics. Unless of course some wacko puts a smut link on a research site!!

In fact, the bonus.com technique would suit my purposes IF I could remove the generic file-edit-view-help tool set. As long as it's accessible, the unscrupulous/savvy user could use it to simply put the address window back and surf away. Anyone know how to do that?

I don't have Dreamweaver, Murray, but I do have Director. Might that be a practical choice? Maybe I should put my questions to the Dir. forum, too...

Looking forward to hearing from you all!

Eileen




Eileen
MaidintheShade

[Lanny Chambers]

In article <bdsm07$d5d$1@forums.macromedia.com>,
"MaidintheShade" [email]webforumsuser@macromedia.com[/email] wrote:

> When I took Lanny's suggestion and examined bonus.com, I saw that one of
> their techniques was to simply remove the address window from the browser's
> toolbar.

Their real trick, though, is filtering their recommended sites' content
dynamically to disable all off-site links. Very crafty.

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Lanny Chambers, St. Louis, USA
[url]http://www.hummingbirds.net/[/url]