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Re: Connecting to the exterior network is impossible `directly'



Thanks.

Celejar wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:27:13 +0200
> Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote:
>
>   
>> No. That's not at all a proxy. Once you power on the computer, and that
>> you want to use Internet, say by Firefox, you are directly redirected to
>> a webpage which asks you your university login & your university
>> password. Once you have entered this stuff, you are logged on the
>> network, and everything is okay. That's a little bit like ADSL where you
>> need to type credentials before using the Internet (at the opposite of
>> the cable).
>>
>> :-(
>>     
>
> One way to do this is to implement a script that will do the
> authentication automatically.  Using Perl, you'd whip something
> together using something like WWW::Mechanize.
>   

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