Stage 4: Select a sign-up method

If you are an ISP, you can specify how users sign up with your service and connect to the Internet.

Internet Sign-up Server
The Internet Sign-up Server method provides full flexibility and dynamically adapts to various sign-up options. To see this method, you must implement a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) script or use Active Server Pages (ASP) as a sign-up server to support the sign-on process.

CGI is a specification for programs than run on an Internet server.To set up a CGI program, you'll need to ensure it can run at your site, place it in the proper directory (frequently the Cgi-bin directory), add a .cgi extension if necessary, and set up the proper permissions on the program and associated files.

You can use Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) to embed scripts within your HTML pages to create dynamic, interactive content for your Web site. In the past, scripts written in the popular scripting languages, such as Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VB Script) JavaScript, and JScript, have been processed by Web browsers that support the language in which the script was written. Active Server Pages enables your Web server to process script. Any browser that can contact your Web server, regardless of its support for scripting, can work with ASP and the dynamic output. ASP is supported on Microsoft Internet Information Server 3.0 or later.

Serverless sign-up
The serverless sign-up method doesn't require a sign-up server. If you select the serverless method, the IEAK wizard will prompt you to provide the necessary information to control the sign-up process. If you choose this option, you'll be prompted for dialing, gateway, and password information. You can also test your signup page from the IEAK wizard.

No sign-up
Specify this method if you don't want users to go through a sign-up procedure when they install their custom browser. This option may be helpful when cable modems are used. Note: Even if you specified earlier in this wizard that you want to build on a single floppy disk, this option is not available when you use the no-signup method. The single-floppy build will not be created.