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 central

Re: Web login

2010-04-22 Thread Tobias Wolf
Dan Williams dcbw at 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

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

2010-04-15 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

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 requiresWebLogin() {

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 is

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 back to

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

Re: Web login

2010-04-13 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
2010/4/13 Mads Kiilerich m...@kiilerich.com: 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

Re: Web login

2010-04-13 Thread Mads Kiilerich
Peteris Krisjanis wrote, On 04/13/2010 01:10 PM: 2010/4/13 Mads Kiilerichm...@kiilerich.com: 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

Re: Web login

2010-04-13 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
2010/4/13 Mads Kiilerich m...@kiilerich.com: 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

Re: Web login

2010-04-13 Thread Marc Herbert
Le 13/04/2010 12:57, Peteris Krisjanis a écrit : 2010/4/13 Mads Kiilerich m...@kiilerich.com: 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