[freeside] How about On-line sign-up

[Kristian Hoffmann]

Sounds good.  I'm almost done with it.  Basically, instead of an .ins
file, you send a mime stream...
Content-type: application/x-netscape-autoconfigure-dialer-v2

and then data formatted like...

(binary num of bytes in field x)(ascii field x)(num of bytes in field
y)(ascci field y)

Field x is field name like username, pop server, etc, and field y is the
value for that... khoff, mail.pc-intouch.com, etc.

I'm just adding it into your if user_agent = IE....then...
elif = NETSCAPE...then...
print "Content-type: ..."

You get the idea.  It shouldn't be too hard to add once I'm done.

-Kristian
<khoff at pc-intouch.com>


On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, ivan wrote:

> I'm working on the signup server right now.
> 
> I'll check some changes into CVS today, hopefully.  I'd be extremely
> interested in working with you to integrate your Netscape stuff. 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 10:57:47AM -0800, Kristian Hoffmann wrote:
> > There is a signup server in the fs_signup directory.  From what I can
> > tell, it looks like it supports the IEAK by generating the necessary .ins
> > file.  I'm working on getting it to work with Netscape IAS stuff so you
> > can use their setup disk with freeside.
> > 
> > -Kristian
> > 
> > On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Fred McDavid wrote:
> > 
> > > Does Freeside support on-line sign-up?
> > > 
> > > Has anyone written an on-line sign-up patch?
> > > 
> > > Perhaps my hackers (actually, with the virus that is going around, we
> > > are all doing our share of hacking (coughing) these days) can be set to
> > > the task.
> > > 
> > > If so, I'd appreciate input as to some of the things that an on-line
> > > sign-up routine should include...
> > > 
> > > I would presume that we'd do the AOL CD-ROM thing and hand out CD's with
> > > browsers and some sort of sign-up program.
> > > 
> > > Does it then call one of our existing local dial-up lines and get
> > > shunted over to a sign-up server?   Or does it call in on a Toll-Free
> > > 800 number to connect to a special (secure) server to do the sign-up?
> > > 
> > > Any opinions and suggestions would be apprciated.
> > > 
> > > Fred McDavid
> > > Virginia Internet Express
> > > Harrisonburg VA
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> _ivan
>