One note: The original patch was supposed to handle 511 http status code, not wispr. see http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6585
2013/2/19 Marcel Holtmann <mar...@holtmann.org> > Hi Dan, > > > > > Plus, as I stated earlier, libxml will be required to handle Wispr > > > > responses (and hotspot 2.0), which are legitimate XML trees. So, why > not > > > > just add it as a dependency right now? > > > > > > that is a funny comment since within ConnMan, we are using GMarkup to > > > handle the WISPr login. And actually if you are looking at anything of > > > the HTML except the WISPr XML you are doing something wrong. Do not > > > bother parsing the HTML page. Either operators add the WISPr XML > > > somewhere or they end up hiding it in comment section. > > > > > > I am also confused what Hotspot 2.0 has to do with XML. Am I reading a > > > different specification than you are? > > > > Yeah I think GMarkup can handle most of the XML stuff. But if we want > > to better handle random hotspots in the future (like my hotel one) we > > may need to do some HTML parsing. I don't necessarily think that would > > require XML though, perhaps just regex. > > if your hotel does not support WISPr you are most certainly on the > loosing end with trying to figure out anything. We have never bothered > to try to handle these. They just trigger the opening of a browser. > > There exists in theory another protocol besides WISPr that early Boingo > hotspots used, but I have not seen it in a long time. I think the last > one was Swisscom and they also support WISPr. So rather pointless trying > to chase that one down. > > Only trick part is the the XML from WISPr is not always present on the > first page the hostpot returns. Sometimes it is on the second or later. > One example for such a setup is Orange in France. However all the > hotspot do use a proper HTTP Location header and thus no need to parse > HTML ever. > > Regards > > Marcel > > > -- Jonh Wendell http://www.bani.com.br
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