Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:11:06 +0100 From: guru@Sisis.de To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: W-LAN hotspot && firefox && Konqueror Message-ID: <20060218101106.GA5891@rebelion.Sisis.de>
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Hi, Last week I was traveling to Amsterdam and tried to use in some hotel the W-LAN of http://www.swisscom-eurospot.com/ ... In the hotel they selled me a card with some code on it and the how-to use on the card only claimed: 1. set the SSID to 'eurospot' 2. start your browser 3. enter the user ID and password from this card Note: In the point 2. there was not mentioned any URL to go, just 'start your browser'. I did so and after: # ifconfig iwi0 ssid eurospot # dhclient iwi0 I already got an IP, /etc/resolv.conf but could no go to nowhere, of course not, because at this point no user ID and password was entered. So I launched KDE's Konqueror (mine one starts with empty page), nothing happened (of course not). I tried to go to some URL in Internet and it did not worked, nothing happened.... I already wanted return the card to the hotel when a colleague said: try it with Mozilla or Firefox. So I launched Firefox, went to the same URL which did not worked with Konqueror and ... this brought up some login-page of http://login03.swisscom-eurospot.com/login.php?LANG=es&UserID=&RadiusReply= (and not the page of the URL I've put in into firefox) and I could enter the user ID and password from the card and after this all worked fine and tranparently. I tried it again and again sometimes to get an idea what's going on and especially to know why it works this way with Mozilla or Firefox but not with KDE Konqueror. I've monitored the traffic with tcpdump as well and all I could figure out is: - if you start Firefox this automatically makes DNS lookup and fetches pages from http://fxfeeds.mozilla.org which is somehow in the bookmarks of Firefox; note in this case the DNS lookup works; - the HTTP packages coming back from fxfeeds.mozilla.org contain a HTTP statement: Location:http://login03.swisscom-eu... i.e. are pointing to that login page of swisscom-eurospot - if you start Konqueror, nothing is fetched automatically and somehow the DNS lookup for any page you want to fetch does not resolve; Could someone bring more light into this and has an idea for the next time how to bring up the W-LAN with KDE Konqueror? Thx in advance Matthias -- Matthias Apitz / Sisis Informationssysteme GmbH ein Tochterunternehmen der OCLC PICA B.V. Leiden (NL) D-82041 Oberhaching, Gruenwalder Weg 28g Fon: +49 89 / 61308-351, Fax: -399, Mobile +49 170 4527211 http://www.sisis.de/~guru/
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