Re: Wifi redirection portals

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 10:42 -0700, Russ Dill wrote:
> Clearly a complex problem with no simple solution. It sucks that
> PPP/dialup/etc autentication problems are now in the past, completely,
> automated etc, and now we must start all over again.
> 
> There is no simple, non-intrusive way for network manager to know that
> a network needs some form of authentication. But I'm thinking, maybe
> some daemon could be running that could detect that a
> redirection/authentication step had taken place. Once that occurs, it
> could be associated that the network requires a
> redirection/authentication step. When network manager connects to that
> network again, it would then be able to popup a browser window upon
> connection, allowing the user to authenticate, once the user closes
> the authentication window, network manager could assume that it really
> is connected.
> 
> The problem that I have is that I'll gave gmail windows open and when
> firefox detects a connection through network manager, gmail will try
> to start talking to the server again, but the SSL certificates don't
> match, so I keep getting error messages. Its really difficult to click
> past them fast enough.

I believe there are already NetworkManagerDispatcher scripts to do this
for a number of portal types:

http://www.darrenalbers.net/wiki/index.php?title=NetworkManagerScripts&oldid=1408

Dan