Re: Web login

[Tobias Wolf <towolf gmail com>]

Dan Williams <dcbw <at> redhat.com> writes:
> 
> I've long wondered what Windows Vista and later do for this, since they
> have some sort of functionality to detect whether you're connected to
> the internet or not.  Maybe we could take a similar approach?  Windows
> certainly doesn't make you enter the addresses of various sites you'd
> like to ping.

I found Vista machines request http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt when they access 
my network.

Seems to be described here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766017(WS.10).aspx

--Tobias