Re: Wi-Fi hotspot
On 03-04-30 10:38 -0400, Debian User wrote:
> squid can be used and configured as a proxy on port 80. there may
> be a facility in the squid.conf file to force redirection to a particular
> page.
>
> At 30 April 2003, Jon Wood <jon@jellybob.co.uk> wrote:
> >On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 13:40, Valter G. Nogueira Jr. wrote:
> >> We are thinking in setup a free wi-fi hotspot using Debian.
> >>
> >> The only restriction is: User must acess a specific web site (our
> sponsor
> >> site to be more specific) to be able to start naviganting the web.
> >>
> >> Does anyone know how to setup such thing?
> >>
> >I'm not certain on this, but I think you'll need to start with a
> >transparent proxy that hijacks anything on port 80, and can then
> >redirect them to a different page if they havn't seen it already.
I'm sure the other replies are right, but just to let you know,
nycwireless.net does something like this where you need to agree to
their terms before accessing the net. They have some mailing lists on
their site, & everybody I ever met from the organization was very
helpful.
The one time I used one of their links I was sharing a wireless card
with a friend who had another laptop & whatever check they did seemed
based on the card's ID because between us we only had to agree once.
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