[isf-wifidog] Send email apon attempted internet access

[Mina Naguib]

Hi Jason

What you'd want is essentially "captive POP3".  The WiFiDog client  
already does captive HTTP, so you can rip through it for an  
understanding of how it works:
http://dev.wifidog.org/browser/trunk/wifidog

An implementation of a secondary captive protocol (DNS) I implemented  
but never made its way to the main trunk is here (combination of  
iptables redirection rules and dnsserver_thread.c):
http://dev.wifidog.org/browser/branches/CaptiveDNS/wifidog

Feel free to quiz myself or the mailing list in general with any  
specifics you need help with.

On 18-Apr-06, at 8:49 PM, Jason Potter wrote:

> Hi Benoit,
>
> I would be interested in looking into it further. Can you put me in  
> contact
> with someone who I could quiz further on the topic?
>
> Regards
> Jason
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benoit Grégoire [mailto:bock at step.polymtl.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 April 2006 4:42 PM
> To: wifidog at listes.ilesansfil.org; jasonp at iinet.net.au
> Cc: ruwan at iinet.net.au
> Subject: Re: [isf-wifidog] Send email apon attempted internet access
>
> On April 18, 2006 01:46 am, Jason Potter wrote:
>> Hi There,
>>
>>
>>
>> A friend of mine was in Paris recently and came across a hotspot  
>> that sent
>> him an email automatically telling him he was in a hotspot and the  
>> url to
>> go to login.  He had not entered any details at this point.  Any  
>> ideas on
>> how this would be done?  Could it be something WiFi-Dog could do?
>
> They run a POP and (possibly IMAP) daemon that always has a single  
> message
> with the instructions.  It only works if you try to check you mail  
> with a
> POP
> or IMAP client (not webmail).
>
> It would be quite possible to write such a thing as a wifidog gateway
> module,
> we even discussed it at one point.  But no one is working on it or  
> (as far
> as
> I know) planning to work on it.
>
>
> -- 
> Benoit Grégoire, http://benoitg.coeus.ca/
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