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Justin Richards wrote:
> I was at a hotel once and when I initially connected to the inhouse network
> it forced my browser to initially load their webpage.
> 
> I would like to do this so they can be advised of the network usage
> guidelines.
> 
> Can anyone point me to some links that could help here.  I have tried to
> search "force webpage redirection on establishing network connection" and
> similiar but no such luck.

They are probably using a proxy server that handles all HTTP traffic for
the network. Instead of loading up your homepage, the proxy server
injected its own message. This can be setup with the Squid proxy server
(though I'm not too sure of the details).

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