[Preston] Meeting on Wednesday 4th May

[Guy Heatley]

Thanks for the info there Steve. Sounds like an intersesting project.
Don't worry about missing last meeting, I figured you guys had bigger fish
to fry.
;-)
Guy

> The problem is that Novel Boarder manager and the evil it is has a problem
> with the refresh header it sends to the web browser (it being no
> standard).
> This means that all other browser don't understand or even allow it. If
> the
> uni where to upgraded to the new version which has this problem fixed then
> other browsers except i.e could authenticate with it.
> The only way at the moment to login to the uni network is to user
> crossover
> office or wine to run IE and then after this use your browsers of choice
> or
> to intercept a session which is currently underway and then change your ip
> to this and Boarder manager in all its greatest will allow you through the
> firewall.
> At the moment I am planning to write a Active portal like boarder manager
> and would love input into how you thing would be the best way to implement
> this. I was thinking PHP with mysql to store the users the only problem
> with
> this is then you can't tie it into a active directory ldap environment
> very
> easily. Then I could you radius but it's a pain in the arse to
> authenticate
> against a radius server with PHP. You wondering what everyone's thoughts
> are.
> Just wondering who is turning up to the meet I would firstly like to give
> mine and gareth apologies for the lack of attendance this month but we
> have
> had a lot of uni work to complete and we promise to turn up this month as
> we
> have a major wireless project underway and like your input on this project
> at the moment we are just implementing the back end but your input would
> help. Thanks Steve
>
>
>
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