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Tyler
Tyler

Reputation: 28874

How can I tell if my page is set as the user's homepage?

Is there any way I can detect when my page has been set as the user's homepage in their browser?

I'm most interested in something in javascript, but I'd be happy to hear about other approaches as well.

Edit: I'm not looking for anything sneaky. I'm wondering if there is anything that is explicitly allowed through the browsers to find out this information.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 373

Answers (3)

Már Örlygsson
Már Örlygsson

Reputation: 14606

Mozilla/Firefox has a window.home() method which loads the user's home page. This method could be used (in an iframe, maybe) combined with server access logging, to see if the site's home page is instantly requested loaded by the current user.

However, other browsers don't seem to support this javascript method.

Upvotes: 0

Andru Luvisi
Andru Luvisi

Reputation: 25318

Nope. You can tell if they got to your page by following a link or not. Check the referrer. However, the browser going to your page as the home page will not appear any different than the user typing in your page or using a bookmark.

Upvotes: 2

Benson
Benson

Reputation: 22847

There isn't likely to be a foolproof method, as that's an intrusion into the privacy of the user.

One thing that comes to mind is checking for a referrer. If the user arrived at your page without following a link, they a) typed the url, b) followed a bookmark, or c) have your page set as their homepage. But that's about the best I can do.

Upvotes: 7

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