Re: Connecting to the Internet

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> >
> > The closest thing I've found is prompting the user
> > to go online with Wininet's InternetAutodial, which will
> > show a dial-up dialogue, but only if the Connection
> > settings in IE are not set to "Never dial a connection".
>
> "Never dial a connection" means that you are demanding complete manual
> control over connectivity. See above.
>
> >
> > (I've noticed, in fact, that with that setting if I open
> > a webpage containing remote image links in IE I'll get
> > a prompt about whether to go online, but if I open
> > it in Firefox it just opens the page and makes no
> > attempt to go online.)
>
> Take this to a Firefox newsgroup.
>
> >
> > And that still doesn't address non-dialup
> > connections. I looked at vbip.com but they only seem
> > to have a Wininet class; nothing more direct.
>
> This is back to the autodial vs total manual control. If you choose to go
> the manual way, you have absolutely no choice but to know exactly what
your
> setup requires.
>
Thanks. I'm afraid that my lack of familiarity
here is making it hard to explain. I don't want to
bypass user choice. I just want to bypass the limitation
on showing a dialogue to go online. I think
I've solved that dilemma by using InternetDial.
I can now show the dialogue regardless uf user
preference settings. But now I'm wondering
(as I detailed in the response to Larry Serflaten),
how that relates to non-dial-up connections.

I just want to prompt for a connection under
all circumstances and make it easy for them to
go online. (I don't have much personal experience
with non-dial-up so I don't know whether a DSL
user, say, gets connection prompts or how that
would work. Some DSL services seem to default
to offline for security purposes. So I'm assuming
they might need to actively do something equivalent
to clicking "connect" in the dial-up dialogue in order
to get back online.)




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