[freeside] How about On-line sign-up

[ivan]

I just checked in a new vesion of the signup server, actual documentation
(htdocs/docs/signup.html) and modifications to track the full phone number
in svc_acct_pop.

On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 02:04:37PM -0800, Kristian Hoffmann wrote:
> Sounds good.  I'm almost done with it.  Basically, instead of an .ins
> file, you send a mime stream...
> Content-type: application/x-netscape-autoconfigure-dialer-v2

Yep, I changed the IEAK stuff to send directly instead of writing an .ins
file.  It uses MIME type "application/x-Internet-signup". 

> and then data formatted like...
> 
> (binary num of bytes in field x)(ascii field x)(num of bytes in field
> y)(ascci field y)
> 
> Field x is field name like username, pop server, etc, and field y is the
> value for that... khoff, mail.pc-intouch.com, etc.

Hmm.  For the IEAK signup, I'm storing a template outside the program for
people to edit, and making some variables available for use in the
tempalte (using the Text::Template perl module). 

I'm not certain how you would go about doing something similar, since it
doesn't look like the Netscape files are text.

> I'm just adding it into your if user_agent = IE....then...
> elif = NETSCAPE...then...

Sounds good.

> print "Content-type: ..."

Use:
   print $cgi->header('mime type');
instead.
 
> You get the idea.  It shouldn't be too hard to add once I'm done.

Sounds great!  Let me know if there's anything I can do on my end to help
you out.

> 
> -Kristian
> <khoff at pc-intouch.com>
> 
> 
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, ivan wrote:
> 
> > I'm working on the signup server right now.
> > 
> > I'll check some changes into CVS today, hopefully.  I'd be extremely
> > interested in working with you to integrate your Netscape stuff. 
> > 
> > On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 10:57:47AM -0800, Kristian Hoffmann wrote:
> > > There is a signup server in the fs_signup directory.  From what I can
> > > tell, it looks like it supports the IEAK by generating the necessary .ins
> > > file.  I'm working on getting it to work with Netscape IAS stuff so you
> > > can use their setup disk with freeside.
> > > 
> > > -Kristian
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Fred McDavid wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Does Freeside support on-line sign-up?
> > > > 
> > > > Has anyone written an on-line sign-up patch?
> > > > 
> > > > Perhaps my hackers (actually, with the virus that is going around, we
> > > > are all doing our share of hacking (coughing) these days) can be set to
> > > > the task.
> > > > 
> > > > If so, I'd appreciate input as to some of the things that an on-line
> > > > sign-up routine should include...
> > > > 
> > > > I would presume that we'd do the AOL CD-ROM thing and hand out CD's with
> > > > browsers and some sort of sign-up program.
> > > > 
> > > > Does it then call one of our existing local dial-up lines and get
> > > > shunted over to a sign-up server?   Or does it call in on a Toll-Free
> > > > 800 number to connect to a special (secure) server to do the sign-up?
> > > > 
> > > > Any opinions and suggestions would be apprciated.
> > > > 
> > > > Fred McDavid
> > > > Virginia Internet Express
> > > > Harrisonburg VA
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > _ivan
> > 
> 

-- 
_ivan