On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 14:23 -0800, Michael Weinberg wrote:
> > A half-way point between keeping and removing the splash page is what
> > wifidog is already doing: show the splash page once, then consider the
> > user authorized. A browser-less mobile device can be expected to make a
> > second attempt and that second attempt will go through.
> 
> Is this how it works? If you don't auth or click the internet link you
> can just try again and it lets your through? Also, given that most of
> our recent complaints seem to come from WiFiDog locations, I'm not
> sure I'd use that as the model going forward.

Yes I was surprised to learn last year that wifidog works that way. One
reason wifidog was looked at was stability problems with nocat, so they
all have their flaws. I'm suggesting the concept not the software.
Authorizing the user after first display of the splash page seems to be
a low-overhead way to implement browserless wifi device access, whatever
software package is used.

Don


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