On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 11:13 -0400, Slokunshialgo wrote: > Hello, > > I've been looking into making an addition to NetworkManager to > automatically authenticate to networks with a web-based login process. > For example, you go to a cafe and they have a paid hotspot, you would > connect to the wifi, open a browser, and enter a username & password. > The idea is to automatically do then when connecting to the network.
There's some stuff out there about this hooking into some perl framework to log into AT&T access points, google around for dispatcher scripts for it. YOu should be able to key off the connection UUID and perform additional authentication against a known address/portal using that UUID as the key for auth information. Dan > The basic idea thus far is to use d-bus to connect NM to a Firefox > extension (starting it if need be) and pass a saved username and > password. This extension would then use different things in Firefox to > login to the page, passing back success or failure. > > Does anybody have any suggestions, or any problems with the proposed > idea? > > --Slokunshialgo > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
