Thanks for you attention. I've just now subscribed to this list. I'm a little green with squid and want something that conventional wisdom says can't be done. Here's the run down.

I'm looking at installing free wireless internet access for the public to use in the downtown Macon GA area. Expenses are rather high, and I'm hoping to offset the costs by selling advertising. The plan is to high-jack port 80 with a transparent proxy server (so the random people using the service don't have to configure their machines for a proxy server to view web-pages) and serve up a default web page that has advertisements for the downtown businesses subsidizing this project. This would give these businesses a return on their investment.

Basically I want the users to only see this web page until they authenticate somehow, preferably by just hitting a button that authenticates them as a regular unprivileged user. I believe there are some commercial pieces of software that handle this, but I was hoping to keep costs low by using squid running atop Slackware linux.

I noticed that a year ago this question was asked here:

http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200305/0291.html

The only reply I can find to this is here:

http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200305/0305.html

Does anyone have any ideas that could work? I've currently got a transparent proxy server working, but the real magic will be re-directing the users to a default page until they authenticate somehow.

Thank you again for your help.

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It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Ecclesiastes 7:5



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