[isf-wifidog] Newbie Server install questions

[Mina Naguib]

Hi Ray

The protocol is one of those things that "just happened - just  
worked" and is not well documented.

There are 2 primary calls that the client makes to the central server.
"/auth/" (authorizes a new login, overloaded to also mean re-check  
existing connection, also update per-connection statistics)
"/ping/" (sends heartbeat to auth server to indicate it's still  
alive. Carries extra info such as system load/uptime/freemem etc.)

The client stops re-directing web browsers to the central server once  
that web browser has successfully authenticated.  This causes a  
firewall rule to be inserted in iptables that lets the user's port 80  
traffic get router properly instead of being re-directed to wifidog's  
internal web server (and therefore a second-redirect to the wifidog  
central server)

A high-level overview of the protocol's logic is here:
http://www.ilesansfil.org/tiki-browse_image.php? 
galleryId=1&sort_mode=created_desc&desp=0&offset=0&imageId=2


On 3-Jan-06, at 6:15 PM, Ray Gwinn wrote:

> Is there any documentation of the protocol used between the wifidog  
> client and server?  If
> so, could you point me to it.
>
> In particular, I am interested in how the wifidog server tells the  
> client to stop re-directing
> to the server.  If you know the php server module that instructs  
> the client to stop re-
> direction please give me the module name.
>
> Ray
>
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