Re: Network Manager Autologin

["Pablo Martí" <pmarti warp es>]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Patryk Zawadzki <patrys pld-linux org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Alexander Sack <asac jwsdot com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:13:37PM +0100, Pablo Martí wrote:
>>> The benefit is that the user is not redirected to the hotspot webpage,
>>> but is logged in automatically. It might seem a silly difference, but
>>> is a requested feature. Our customer requires WISPr/WSP capabilities
>>> and I'm very interested in the outcome of this thread.
>> I agree that it would be nice to be automatically logged in, but I
>> don't clearly see how why we need firefox to do that authentication.
>>
>> Another idea would be to write a tray applet that recognizes when NM
>> goes online and the probes whether it gets redirected to hotspot
>> site. If thats the case the tray thing would authenticate and would
>> allow users also to end that session later (from the tray). This could
>> be done by nm applet itself, but as we dont really have a plugin
>> infrastructure for that yet I would suggest to make that a standalone
>> tray tool until we have more experience on what we really want
>> here. Would that work?
>
> I think the important question is: isn't this a direct violation of
> the ToS? By automatically doing something that was created to enforce
> user interaction you are creating a tool that silently accepts all
> licenses, terms and conditions without notifying the user.

No, the very first time you interact with the hotspot, you'll be
redirected to the login page anyway. You'll have to accept the ToS and
*pay*. The use-case discussed here is after paying for the access, not
having to explicitly log in the hotspot every time you want to use
afterwards

Pablo

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> Patryk Zawadzki
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