alternate offline home page

[matt]

I'm looking for a way have IE start with a locally cached page of our
intranet when not the uesr is not connected to our network. Since users'
homepage is an intranet page, they get the "page cannot be displayed"
screen.

We have looked at offline folders, but I think that is clumsy- the user gets
a prompt asking if they want to go offline- if they do this and forget about
it they will get frusterated.

Ideally if the site http://somesite.html is not accessible, the local page
c:\someofflinesite.html would come up. I dont think we would want to change
the default 404 error screen to display the alt page. Anyone have an idea?

 

[Guest]

Depending on what version of windows you are using, you could set up Personal
Web Server or IIS to run an intranet, which loads whenever you open IE,
within this you could include a link to an image stored on the web which is
displayed when your online.

 

[matt]

thats a good idea, but i dont think we will want to install a webserver on
each machine in our environment. This page would only be a backup if the
live page is not available

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

I'm looking for a way have IE start with a locally cached page of our
intranet when not the uesr is not connected to our network. Since users'
homepage is an intranet page, they get the "page cannot be displayed"
screen.

We have looked at offline folders, but I think that is clumsy- the user gets
a prompt asking if they want to go offline- if they do this and forget about
it they will get frusterated.

Ideally if the site http://somesite.html is not accessible, the local page
c:\someofflinesite.html would come up. I dont think we would want to change
the default 404 error screen to display the alt page. Anyone have an idea?

This is probably the wrong newsgroup to be asking this question in.
Try in a web development newsgroup, for example.
The MSDN newsgroups menu is a possible starting point.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/


FWIW I think what you would need is something like this:
1. a local page which contains a method to detect whether the client
is on- or offline and if online whether the intranet site is accessible.
2. once that determination is made (BTW I do not know if it is even
possible using just scripting) the page would redirect appropriately.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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