On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Patryk Zawadzki _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
