partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

[Erez D]

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Rabin Yasharzadehe <rabin at rabin.io> wrote:
> the code is in the first answer
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>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13958614/how-to-check-for-unrestricted-internet-access-captive-portal-detection

nice,
now i know the term is called "walled garden" or "captive portal"

do if i understand correctly,
android expect a captive portal to return a redirect, and so generates
a notification with the redirect url ?

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> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Erez D <erez0001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> however, that not what i ment
>>
>> i was only asking how it generated a notification on my phone without
>> me opening a browser
>> i do not want to restrict access to anything
>>
>> thanks,
>> erez.
>> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham <yba at tkos.co.il>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi Erez,
>> > For each AP you need to maintain a table of client connections that are
>> > "accepted", meaning that the client has presented some type of
>> > credential or
>> > payment or whatever.
>> >
>> > Packets from clients that are not accepted are routed to some
>> > authentication
>> > or payment gateway, with possible port translation.
>> >
>> > The accepted client table does not have to be on the AP itself. It is
>> > usually held in a RADIUS server upstream. The authentication gateway
>> > also
>> > does not need to be on the AP itself. It can be upstream and does not
>> > have
>> > to be the same as the RADIUS server. You can also have more than one
>> > payment
>> > gateway but use the same RADIUS server.
>> >
>> > That, in a nutshell is how it is done. There's a lot of
>> > netfilter/iptables
>> > smoke an mirrors going on on the AP.
>> >
>> >
>> >  - yba
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, 26 May 2014, Erez D wrote:
>> >
>> >> Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 10:26:52 +0300
>> >> From: Erez D <erez0001 at gmail.com>
>> >> To: Jonathan Ben Avraham <yba at tkos.co.il>
>> >> Cc: linux-il <linux-il at 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 <yba at tkos.co.il>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Hi Erez,
>> >>> No. The ability to configure a payment/authentication gateway is a
>> >>> router
>> >>> feature. I worked on this feature for Alvarion's WBSn. Every router
>> >>> designer
>> >>> develops their own feature.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> can you elaborate ?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>  - yba
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Mon, 26 May 2014, Erez D wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 10:11:54 +0300
>> >>>> From: Erez D <erez0001 at gmail.com>
>> >>>> To: linux-il <linux-il at 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 a browser with a predefined URL
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> i was wandering - is that part of an RFC or standard ?
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> 10x
>> >>>> erez.
>> >>>>
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