Re: Extending the mobile-broadband-provider-info database

[Oleg Zhurakivskyy <oleg zhurakivskyy intel com>]

Hello Olaf,

On 07/20/2011 09:33 PM, Olaf Hering wrote:
> While you are at it, maybe something can be added to really establish an
> internet connection for certain providers.
>
> For example Vodafone offers something called Websessions. Once the
> gsm/ppp connection is established, one has to start a webbrowser and
> connect to any http website. This will trigger the WebBridge to open a window
> with the remaining time and it will actually enable the real internet
> connection in the 'Weblogic Bridge'. Without that http access, one can
> just resolve hostnames, but nothing else can be done. I have no idea
> wether Vodafone is the only provider doing that. The script below will
> automate the http calls for the Websessions. I have used it in the last
> two weeks and it worked well for me.

Thanks for the info and idea! Let me check if anybody in oFono might be 
interested to extend the provisioning with such capability.

Regards,
Oleg
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