-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 01:00 am, Paul Sack wrote: > Today at 11:52am, Alexander Boulgakov expounded: > > ++ To clarify my situation: > ++ The whole building is an ethernet based sub-net (mask > ++ 255.255.255.128 I think). The only box connected to both the intranet > ++ and the internet is this pos called rockbox (ip 66.112.238.1 I think - > ++ crackers welcome :). We are issued dhcp. However, before we can send to > ++ anywhere outside the building, we must open up a web browser, which > ++ opens an https login with out account name/password. Then, it seems, > ++ this rockbox proxy allows packets to get through (maybe its just a > ++ firewall not a proxy -- I have never dealt with this kind of stuff > ++ before). Thats it pretty much. > > AIUI, currently, you do not have to set up a proxy in your web browser. > The network firewalls do some magic and redirect your first outgoing HTTP > to the login page, you login, and then the firewalls let you do regular > stuff.
(If I understand you correctly) I would just write a small LWP perl script to log me in automatically. Put it in cron and you're done. - -- Jason Smith GPG: 03EE 9EB8 E500 874A F509 7B95 9B9A 84A1 26E9 4F79 http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~jhs/public_key.gpg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Wvjjm5qEoSbpT3kRArhwAJ4nwEtin1tyYv0yCPKXOjCMI99WqwCdEDYA 4EYnNJp85xA6pdgC+3xOs+Y= =5szz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
