Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
If you want a captive portal then as suggested above chillispot or coovachilli seem to be your answer (though both projects seem to be fairly dead). The wikipedia article on captive portals lists a few distros that may be useful to you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal 2014-05-27

partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Erez D
this is partially off topic some times when i connect to open wifi on aitports, my phone (android) gives me a notification of a site i need to go to, and if i click on it, it opens a browser with a predefined URL i was wandering - is that part of an RFC or standard ? 10x erez.

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Rabin Yasharzadehe
I think it's the same/some implementation of Google chrome to check if you are behind a proxy and have access to the internet. https://mikewest.org/2012/02/chrome-connects-to-three-random-domains-at-startup *--Rabin* On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Erez D erez0...@gmail.com wrote: this is

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
...@gmail.com To: linux-il linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi this is partially off topic some times when i connect to open wifi on aitports, my phone (android) gives me a notification of a site i need to go to, and if i click on it, it opens

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Erez D
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Rabin Yasharzadehe ra...@rabin.io wrote: I think it's the same/some implementation of Google chrome to check if you are behind a proxy and have access to the internet. https://mikewest.org/2012/02/chrome-connects-to-three-random-domains-at-startup Thanks,

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Erez D
? - yba On Mon, 26 May 2014, Erez D wrote: Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 10:11:54 +0300 From: Erez D erez0...@gmail.com To: linux-il linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi this is partially off topic some times when i connect to open wifi

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
To: Jonathan Ben Avraham y...@tkos.co.il Cc: linux-il linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham y...@tkos.co.il wrote: Hi Erez, No. The ability to configure a payment/authentication gateway

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Erez D
...@tkos.co.il Cc: linux-il linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham y...@tkos.co.il wrote: Hi Erez, No. The ability to configure a payment/authentication gateway is a router feature. I

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Rabin Yasharzadehe
@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham y...@tkos.co.il wrote: Hi Erez, No. The ability to configure a payment/authentication gateway is a router feature. I worked on this feature

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Erez D
@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham y...@tkos.co.il wrote: Hi Erez, No. The ability to configure a payment/authentication gateway is a router feature. I worked on this feature

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Erez D
+0300 From: Erez D erez0...@gmail.com To: Jonathan Ben Avraham y...@tkos.co.il Cc: linux-il linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham y...@tkos.co.il wrote: Hi Erez, No. The ability

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
: linux-il linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham y...@tkos.co.il wrote: Hi Erez, No. The ability to configure a payment/authentication gateway is a router feature. I

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
To: Jonathan Ben Avraham y...@tkos.co.il Cc: linux-il linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi Jonathan, if we are talking about walled garden/captive portal implementation under linux, i'll take the opportunity to ask something related. how

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Guy Gold
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 4:51 AM, Erez D erez0...@gmail.com wrote: however, that not what i ment i was only asking how it generated a notification on my phone without me opening a browser Hi Erez, At the risk of needlessly reiterating some detail: In cases I've encountered, the alerts seemed

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Amos Shapira
Yes I think we got this. I'm not the OP bit I wonder what can an AP admin do to configure it in a way which triggers this OS smarts on the client. On 27 May 2014 07:16, Guy Gold guy1g...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 4:51 AM, Erez D erez0...@gmail.com wrote: however, that not what i

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2014-05-27 2:25 GMT+03:00 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com: Yes I think we got this. I'm not the OP bit I wonder what can an AP admin do to configure it in a way which triggers this OS smarts on the client. Make sure you aren't whitelisting the pages/domains used to verify the connectivity

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Guy Gold
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.comwrote: Yes I think we got this. I'm not the OP bit I wonder what can an AP admin do to configure it in a way which triggers this OS smarts on the client. At least, on my part, configuring our WiFi AP concentrator, I did

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Erez D
Do you know what linux software can be used to proxy dns for some clients, resolve everything to a predetermained IP to other clients ? can dnsmasq do that ? other open software ? On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Guy Gold guy1g...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Amos Shapira