On our captive portal we just run a cron job once a day to pull the
latest OCSP IP addresses to be whitelisted, and never have had a problem
with SSL.

Dale


Thus spake Hanset, Philippe C ([email protected]) on Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 
06:58:24PM +0000:
> Many places have problems with OSCP... they don't let users that join the 
> portal
> check for the OCSP validity (forget to allow for this in firewall) of the 
> portal's certificate. That will make some OSes that
> don't automatically switch to CRL fail.
> Or worse, certificate providers change the IP address of their OCSP servers, 
> and portals and firewall were
> configured with a static IP address of the OCSP servers... that can make 
> portals fail as well.
> It would be nice to allow to check everything by name, but some firewalls are 
> still finicky about that!
> 
> Philippe Hanset
> www.eduroam.us
> 
> 
> 
> On Dec 2, 2013, at 1:02 PM, "Osborne, Bruce W (Network Services)" 
> <[email protected]>
>  wrote:
> 
> > Why do you say there are portal issues with https? Other than certificate 
> > error messages, http & https redirects work fine with Aruba wireless. I 
> > know I had issues with https & portals a few years ago when I tried portals 
> > with Cisco LWAP APs.
> > 
> > 
> > Bruce Osborne
> > Network Engineer
> > IT Network Services
> >  (434) 592-4229
> >  
> > Liberty University  |  Training Champions for Christ since 1971
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Arran Cudbard-Bell [mailto:[email protected]] 
> > Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 2:25 PM
> > Subject: Re: 802.1x vs web-portal
> > 
> > On 19 Nov 2013, at 21:00, Ken LeCompte <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> >> One major consideration is that the use of https for more and more 
> >> webpages is resulting in more confused users not getting redirected to 
> >> captive portal login pages.
> > 
> > A workaround for some devices would be to to add a WISPr responder to the 
> > portal. It will work will all recent iOS and OSX devices, some Windows 
> > Phones, and Windows 8/8.1.
> > 
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn408675.aspx
> > 
> > There is no perfect solution to portal redirection, but WISPr does seem a 
> > good way forward.
> > 
> > -Arran
> > 
> > Arran Cudbard-Bell <[email protected]> FreeRADIUS Development Team
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