>>Further, I've done CD-ROMs that open a web browser when
>>you insert them. It then shows the opening page. It'd be
>>great to plug in my PIC based product, have a browser open,
>>and be able to talk to my device without having installed
>>any software on the host. But... it doesn't look easy!
>
> Hmm, I know we have a system that does an autorun on a USB drive when it
> gets plugged in. We use it for traveller documentation that goes with
> PCBs.
> I would have thought that using the autorun file would do it for you, or
> does that still require the static file system talked of earlier?
>

It'd be great if it could handle dynamic content, GET requests, etc. It's
supposed to be a user interface to a product. We currently do that through
Ethernet, but getting in there and setting the IP address and other stuff
can be a bit of a pain. We're doing it now using default IP addresses,
autoconfig, DHCP, and netbios hostnames, but it's not as easy as plugging
in a USB connector. And not every of these features are supported on every
OS. But, as others have pointed out, it doesn't look like this would be
easy or possible.

Harold

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