How to tell what your visitor's home page is

Is it possible?

[adni18]

Is it possible to tell what your visitor's home page is? Thanks in advance.

[Rambo Tribble]

No, that is not information that is accessible as it would violate privacy to do so.

[adni18]

Ah, but it is. Google has some way of telling if the visitor's home page is google.com or not, but I can't see how.

[Rambo Tribble]

Unless IE exposes it to ActiveX, (which is certainly possible, since ActiveX exposes the user to just about every other affront imaginable) I am skeptical. It would pretty well violate the Same Origin Policy.

[Bernard Marx]

There's this thing: [msdn.microsoft.com...]

Dunno whether ActiveX is at the bottom of it, or not.
Either way, it's just as dodgy. Are you going to pop up a box suggesting that they change their home page to yours - out of the hundreds of millions of alternatives on offer? If everyone did that, I'd take up knitting instead.

[Leosghost]

From the page in question at M$

There is no public standard that applies to this method.

In relation to the practices of others this means "hacking" ...M$ usually mean activeX ..same thing ..

[Bernard Marx]

Like

innerHTML

you mean?

[Leosghost]

Just following the links there..
[msdn.microsoft.com...]
etc
somehow it feels better seeing this stuff through the medium of Firefox...

been awhile since I went for a tour ..cute

[Rambo Tribble]

If I'm not mistaken, IE behaviors are considered ActiveX controls. Oh, icky poo!