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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
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