You could also put in a link to the real hotel page and put that url in the walled garden so they can hit it no matter what, even on the first try.
Cameron On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Cameron Crum <cc...@wispmon.com> wrote: > What is the purpose? Is it just advertising for the hotel? If so, why not > just creat a page that "looks" like their page. It doesn't have to have all > the functionality of the real page, just a "brochure page" or something to > say thanks for staying with us. Then you could add a button that "logs them > in" (really just adds them as a generic user to the hotspot) so they can > continue on to their regular home page. Just an idea. > > Cameron > > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Robert West > <robert.w...@just-micro.com>wrote: > >> I was doing the same thing but after so many calls about whatever device >> someone was trying to use that wouldn’t go through the redirect, I turned it >> off. The final straw was some IBM people were having a meeting at the hotel >> and were trying to use the wireless access for every big shot wireless >> device one could think of. Some would go but the ones that had to work in >> secure mode wouldn’t allow the redirect. Bogus. Turned it off and the >> calls went away. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] *On >> Behalf Of *Nick Olsen >> *Sent:* Thursday, January 06, 2011 1:46 PM >> *To:* WISPA General List >> *Subject:* [WISPA] Hotel Redirect >> >> >> >> We are looking for a way to redirect hotel guests to the hotels home page >> on the first page load. >> We are looking for something that does this in mikrotik because thats what >> we have on location already. >> The idea is that the user connects up, Hits the internet and is redirected >> to a page. And then, On the next page load without hitting "login" or >> something they go to the page they requested. We use hotspot for our own >> stuff, And have used hotspot on this before using the "trial" function but >> this time around we don't control the page that the user is brought to. So >> we couldn't add some form of "login" button to it. >> I've tried this with dst-nat rules and browser caching always gets in the >> way. >> What is everyone else doing? >> >> Nick Olsen >> Network Operations >> >> (855) FLSPEED x106 >> >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > >
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