How do I get the browser's "home" URL?

[Gabriella]

Hi,

I would like to know how to find out which is the browser's "home"
URL?
This is so I'll be able to suggest "set as homepage" for my website,
only for those who did not set it beforehand.
I know there's a security issue with this, but is there some
workaround it?

Thanks,
Gabi

[Randy Webb]

Gabriella said the following on 8/5/2007 12:12 PM:

Hi,

I would like to know how to find out which is the browser's "home"
URL?

var browserHomePage = prompt("What is your home page?");

This is so I'll be able to suggest "set as homepage" for my website,
only for those who did not set it beforehand.
I know there's a security issue with this, but is there some
workaround it?

Nope. And, thankfully so.

--
Randy
Chance Favors The Prepared Mind
comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq/index.html
Javascript Best Practices - http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/bestpractices/

[Richard Cornford]

Gabriella wrote:

I would like to know how to find out which is the browser's
"home" URL?
This is so I'll be able to suggest "set as homepage" for
my website, only for those who did not set it beforehand.
I know there's a security issue with this,

It is a privacy issue not a security issue. My home page(s) are nobody's
business but my own (except maybe at work, where they still don't become
your bussiness).

but is there some workaround it?

No, that probably would be a security issue. (Indeed, if security on an
IE browser was set so low that you could instantiate a windows scripting
host ActiveX instance then you could go and get the home page
information out of the user's registry, install any spyware you wanted,
upload the contents of and then re-format their hard discs, and so on.)

Richard.

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Gabriella wrote:

I would like to know how to find out which is the browser's "home"
URL?

You can not.

This is so I'll be able to suggest "set as homepage" for my website,
only for those who did not set it beforehand.

You should not.

I know there's a security issue with this, but is there some
workaround it?

There is not.
HTH

PointedEars
--
var bugRiddenCrashPronePieceOfJunk = (
navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE 5') != -1
&& navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mac') != -1
) // Plone, register_function.js:16

[John]

Hi

You can invite the user to set your site as their home page, but you cannot
know what their homepage is.

<font face="arial" size="1">
<a href="#" onClick="this.style.behavior='url(#default#homepag e)';
this.setHomePage('http://www.xyz.com');">Set xyz.com as Homepage
</a>
</font>

Regards
John

[Randy Webb]

John said the following on 8/6/2007 4:15 AM:

Hi

You can invite the user to set your site as their home page, but you cannot
know what their homepage is.

<font face="arial" size="1">

I thought the web migrated beyond HTML3.2 in the last century.

<a href="#" onClick="this.style.behavior='url(#default#homepag e)';
this.setHomePage('http://www.xyz.com');">Set xyz.com as Homepage
</a>

Breaks for me in at least 3 different browsers.

--
Randy
Chance Favors The Prepared Mind
comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq/index.html
Javascript Best Practices - http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/bestpractices/

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

John wrote:

You can invite the user to set your site as their home page, but you cannot
know what their homepage is.

<font face="arial" size="1">

Wake up, CSS 2 is there since more than 9 years.

<a href="#" onClick="this.style.behavior='url(#default#homepag e)';
this.setHomePage('http://www.xyz.com');">Set xyz.com as Homepage
</a>

This will result almost always in a runtime error. Either because
`this.style' (implemented as a CSSStyleDeclaration object) has no `behavior'
property (as that is MSHTML-proprietary), or because HTMLAnchorElement
objects have no setHomePage() method, or because this method is not allowed
to be called due to security restrictions. Or it would not work at all
because client-side scripting is disabled or not even supported.

</font>

This must be one of the worst examples I have seen to date.
PointedEars
--
"Use any version of Microsoft Frontpage to create your site. (This won't
prevent people from viewing your source, but no one will want to steal it.)"
-- from <http://www.vortex-webdesign.com/help/hidesource.htm>

[The Magpie]

Gabriella wrote:

>
I would like to know how to find out which is the browser's "home"
URL?
This is so I'll be able to suggest "set as homepage" for my website,
only for those who did not set it beforehand.
I know there's a security issue with this, but is there some
workaround it?

You ask them - and they probably refuse to tell you. In short, forget
the whole idea.