[isf-wifidog] Send email apon attempted internet access

[Max Horváth]

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Interesting ...

Why didn't the code made it into the main trunk?

Cheers, Max!

Am 19.04.2006 um 04:10 schrieb 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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