Interesting request. Looking at OpenKiosk, it looks achievable without too much complexity.

You want a client that launches a browser, monitors time, does some light-duty admin on the PC.

This validates using a server process.

The config for the browser uses one network adapter, but the validation exchange uses a different network adapter. I'll have to look into what it takes to do this with a browser like FireFox. The "pick a network" must be a use case in a browser.

Any other constraints or complexities?
Steven Lott | Homepage | 06/05/04 - 11:27 am | #

Have you looked at Kiosk Proxy Servers?

http://www.fileheaven.com/Proxy-...wnload/ 3183.htm
Steven Lott | Homepage | 06/05/04 - 11:53 am | #

How's this?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pysocks/

You could probably extend this to include authorization and a timeout capability.

Perhaps this can be extended to cut off the connection after the egg timer has run out.
Steven Lott | Homepage | 06/05/04 - 2:06 pm | #

Thanks for your suggestions - I'll look through these.
Fuzzyman | Homepage | 06/05/04 - 6:22 pm | #