[Rob Gould]

I'm creating a CD-ROM for a client, and 3 of the tasks on this project are quite challenging. I'm wondering if anyone reading this might be able to give me some advice.

1) I need to edit the user's PPPoE configuration settings (name/password), and then activate the network connection.

2) I need to be able to add 3 URLs to the user's IE bookmarks listing.

3) I need to be able to detect that a user has clicked a button on a web-page, and if that button is pressed: A) quit the browser, B) launch another application.

I think item #1 can probably be done via a Unix shell script. I'm not sure about #2 and #3 - - can anyone tell me if AppleScript could do this type of thing?

[Millennium]

The first should be doable via a shell script, though I don't know exactly how it would be done.

The second is probably best suited to something like Perl. As I recall, IE's bookmarks file is HTML-like, so there's not much of an issue there.

The third option, though, won't be easy and might be impossible.

[Angus_D]

Originally posted by Rob Gould:
<STRONG>1) I need to edit the user's PPPoE configuration settings (name/password), and then activate the network connection.</STRONG>

SystemConfiguration.framework is the API to do this.

<STRONG>2) I need to be able to add 3 URLs to the user's IE bookmarks listing.</STRONG>

As the previous poster said, it's a HTML file in ~/Library/Explorer/Favorites.html

<STRONG>3) I need to be able to detect that a user has clicked a button on a web-page, and if that button is pressed: A) quit the browser, B) launch another application.</STRONG>

If you can use the Help Viewer application instead, you can do this. I don't think you can from IE, though. Write a custom app!

[macvillage.net]

1. Shell script

2. You can use an applescript and have it edit that file
/Library/Explorer/Favorites.html


3. Not possible. I don't think any browser passes that info on (would be considered a security issue).