If you're an ISP, you can specify the Internet Connection wizard (ICW) as the tool that customers use to sign up and configure their computers for Internet services. You can create server-based solutions that exchange information with the screens of the ICW. This feature is not available for the serverless sign-up method.
Customizable solutions for Internet sign-up are located in the IEAK Toolkit. The code is provided in Active Server Pages as well as Perl format, thus allowing you to build an ICW sign-up server for Web servers on different platforms with a minimum of effort. If you use the sample code, the only work you need to do is to integrate the sign-up server with your registration and billing systems.
In the Windows 98 Referral Server Program, the sign-up server code is similar for both IEAK sign-up and Referral Server registrations.
The following topics describe how to develop a sign-up process for the Internet Connection wizard. Although these topics describe a tested, comprehensive sign-up solution, which is recommended in most cases, you can customize the sign-up process to meet the needs of your organization.
Internet sign-up by using the Internet Connection wizard (ICW) is not available through single-disk branding on Internet Explorer 4.01 SP1 unless the user is running version 5 of the ICW. The ICW version that was released with Windows 98 was not enabled for use with the new ICW sign-up method with the IEAK. You can also create an Internet sign-up program through single-disk branding by using the kiosk sign-up method.