app android and apple for captive portal autologin
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I has a captive portal in my company and I need free app for android and apple mobiles that memorize to facility auto login on wifi connect. Memorize login, password and automatic login on connect.
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@edicastro said in app android and apple for captive portal autologin:and apple mobiles
Keep in mind that there is no such thing as auto login for a captive portal. You will see the login page, shown by a web browser.
If you don't want that, you shouldn't be using a captive portal.Also, the actual captive portal support isn't build into pfSense, it's your device, "close-to-OS level", that should support a captive portal.
It goes like this :
When a Ethernet connection comes up, this happens when a network cable is plugged in, or a wifi network is selected, the DHCP client kicks in to ask for IP/Gateway/DNS. Then the device throws out a 'hidden' http (not https) request. If the returned html page returns a known return text like "You are connected" the device knows it has a direct Internet connection : there is no portal.
For apple device, this test address is : http://captive.apple.com/hotspot-detect.htm and the returned text should be .... I leave it up to you to discover that ;) Android/Other uses an identical test.If the text differs, then a web browser is (asked to be) started, and the test address is repeated.
Because the user isn't logged in yet, the http request is redirected to the pfSense web server that doesn't return "Connected ..." or "Success" but your captive portal login page.A captive portal is a web page that shows a html form that needs user input, most often it has a 'user' and 'password' field, and there will be an Ok/proceed button.
These can be filed filled in automatically if you want to, as what you would see for any site that asks user credentials at login. That's a browser functionality.Conclusion : (phone) apps do not have to be aware that captive portals exists.
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@Gertjan you are wrong. there is an application that memorizes password and performs automatic login in captive portal.
For Android has a app "wi-fi panther" (try It)For IOS I dont know
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I need more sugestion application auto login for captive portal
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Application that pre-fils html login fields AND click the default ok button on an arbitrary html form might exist.
The first part, filling in the fields, is something every browser does these days. Nothing new here.
Doing an auto login .... something tells me that's actually a security issue.Btw : never had the luxury to try or even own an 'Android' based phone.
The pfSense captive portal I manage for more then 10 years, for a hotel, can't be based on some type of device using some app. It should work for every device, every time.
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