[dundee] Instant hotspot Idea

[Robert Ladyman]

You can intercept with squid if you want to do this all by hand.


> I have a dream.
> A dream about instant captive portal solution. The deployment would only
> require the network admin to change the DNS settings for LAN users.
> The idea flows in my head approximately like this:
> 
> USER requests foo.com
> DNS responds with IP for pong.com
> pong.com is a (Squid) proxy which downloads foo.coms index.html
> proxy adds a link for css stylesheet file located on pong.com server to
> index.html page from foo.com
> the changed index.html is served to USER
> USER requests css file from pong.css server - creates HTTP GET request
> if (HTTP request for style.css on pong.com includes users cookies) {
>   the style.css is a blank file
>   } else {
>   the stylesheet is designed the way to render the foo.com index page
> unreadable and displays notice on how to register on pong.com
> }
> the registration would set proper cookie in users browser for pong.com
>  domain
> 
> Of course, style.css can easily be changed to any other element of the
> page - such as IMG , but stylesheet would serve quite well.
> 
> Now, is there any DNS/HTTP/COOKIE expert who can tell me whether this is
> actually technically possible to do? I believe it is and I also think that
> I have never seen such a service in practice.
> 
> I am finishing this mail with one of my mottos:
> "Life is to short to keep secrets"
> 
> Marcel
> 
> please reply to
> marcel at shmu.org.uk
> 
> Marcel Hecko
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