Re: Network Manager Autologin

["Pablo Martí" <pmarti warp es>]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Patryk Zawadzki <patrys pld-linux org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Pablo Martí <pmarti warp es> wrote:
>> 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
>
> Then it's entirely doable as a Firefox extension without any NM
> integration (check if the page is the login one, submit data and
> reload) or easily doable using python, dbus and curl (wait for
> connection, check SSID, if matching call curl with necessary POST
> payload - could be read from the keyring).

It is doable sure, but it depends on the context. What if you have no
firefox on the system. What if you just want to irssi a bit? Coupling
the solution to firefox is a no-go IMHO and is already done[0].

[0] http://coova.org/wiki/index.php/CoovaFX

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