Re: Web login

2010-04-23 Thread Marc Herbert
Le 22/04/2010 14:47, Tobias Wolf a écrit : > I found Vista machines request http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt when > they access my network. > Seems to be described here: > > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766017(WS.10).aspx Interesting, thanks! If NM ever wants to use some "cen

Re: Web login

2010-04-22 Thread Tobias Wolf
Dan Williams redhat.com> writes: > > I've long wondered what Windows Vista and later do for this, since they > have some sort of functionality to detect whether you're connected to > the internet or not. Maybe we could take a similar approach? Windows > certainly doesn't make you enter the addr

Re: Web login

2010-04-15 Thread Mads Kiilerich
Marc Herbert wrote, On 04/15/2010 11:11 AM: Anyway any of these solutions would typically fail to make the difference between lack of connectivity due to a Weblogin versus perfect connectivity to an locked-down intranet. So this is just about *public internet connectivity*. The fuzzy and context-

Re: Web login

2010-04-15 Thread Marc Herbert
> I wasn't against it per-se, but we need to really think about this since > it certainly does have the potential to make people really mad. The > reference was about some DLink routers that DoS-ed the UW Madison NTP > servers because they'd hard-coded the NTP server address in the firmware > and

RE: Web login

2010-04-14 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 11:28 +, Mattias Bengtsson wrote: > > > Just got it - it is simple as that. Try to open any page you're sure > > > isn't accessible without authentication. It will redirect to login > > > page. If there is clear shot that is indeed login page, go ahead. If > > > not, fall

Re: Web login

2010-04-14 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 09:42 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 14:57 +0300, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: > > Just got it - it is simple as that. Try to open any page you're sure > > isn't accessible without authentication. It will redirect to login > > page. If there is clear shot that

RE: Web login

2010-04-14 Thread Mattias Bengtsson
> > Just got it - it is simple as that. Try to open any page you're sure > > isn't accessible without authentication. It will redirect to login > > page. If there is clear shot that is indeed login page, go ahead. If > > not, fall back to current default - do nothing :) > > > bool requiresWebLog

Re: Web login

2010-04-14 Thread Martin Owens
On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 14:57 +0300, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: > Just got it - it is simple as that. Try to open any page you're sure > isn't accessible without authentication. It will redirect to login > page. If there is clear shot that is indeed login page, go ahead. If > not, fall back to current

Re: Web login

2010-04-13 Thread Marc Herbert
Le 13/04/2010 12:57, Peteris Krisjanis a écrit : > 2010/4/13 Mads Kiilerich : >> Peteris Krisjanis wrote, On 04/13/2010 01:10 PM: > .. >>> Of course, such functionality would be kinda cool. I could imagine it like >>> this: >>> a) user connects to open network with web interface for

Re: Web login

2010-04-13 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
2010/4/13 Mads Kiilerich : > Peteris Krisjanis wrote, On 04/13/2010 01:10 PM: .. >> Of course, such functionality would be kinda cool. I could imagine it like >> this: >> a) user connects to open network with web interface for username and >> password; >> b) NetworkManager detects i

Re: Web login

2010-04-13 Thread Mads Kiilerich
Peteris Krisjanis wrote, On 04/13/2010 01:10 PM: 2010/4/13 Mads Kiilerich: As far as I know NetworkManager has no clever support for login to networks that seems open but requires login on a web page before it routes anywhere. No matter what you are going to use the connection for you thus h

Re: Web login

2010-04-13 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
2010/4/13 Mads Kiilerich : > As far as I know NetworkManager has no clever support for login to networks > that seems open but requires login on a web page before it routes anywhere. > No matter what you are going to use the connection for you thus have to open > a browser and login before you can

Web login

2010-04-13 Thread Mads Kiilerich
As far as I know NetworkManager has no clever support for login to networks that seems open but requires login on a web page before it routes anywhere. No matter what you are going to use the connection for you thus have to open a browser and login before you can do your non-browser-based mail/