captive portal logout not popping out
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i have checked the popup logout page on setup but even if user login, the logout popup doesnt show. im on latest pfsense version.
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The pop up pop's up if you instruct your browser to accept pop-ups.
These days, everybody has set that option to "off" (you included, apparently) because it can be very annoying...... and now you are asking why this browser option ... works well - doesn't work ..... ?
You can't do anything about that - except maybe asking on the captive portal login screen that visitors should re-activate pop ups in their browser, or at that they should at least accept popups from the captive portal IP. ( they won't do so any away - tried that before, and believe me : they just don't).
I had a "final" solution ones : throwing the captive portal login page into a popup. No one could login anymore of course and vocal fallout settled down on my desk. I was answering : "You want to login, ok, you accept popup first" ... When some clients managed to login, by accepting my pop ups, they did receive the logout pop up !
I advise you not to do the same thing, except if your are willing to see any angry visitors.
A pop up to logout is a nice thing to have - but it exists merely in theory, not in the reality. -
may I also know how I can do manual logout
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Short answer : you can't.
Only the popup solution could assure a way for the visitor to do so.If visitors remove the connection, like shutting down the wifi, and you chose a low idle-time out, say 5 minutes, visitors will be removed quickly.
Btw : https://www.test-domaine.fr/munin/brit-hotel-fumel.net/pfsense.brit-hotel-fumel.net/portalusers.html - I'm using 120 minutes idle time out.
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i would like to create a manual page to make popup for logout appear so i need to know what is that html or php file for that logout page.
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If you insist : https://forum.netgate.com/topic/69307/captive-portal-manual-logout-page-address/1 - a very long discussion with code examples is there.
This will be a do yourself it solution (praise the lord the authors didn't rewrote the whole part in perl yet ^^ - PHP is sooooooo easy).
Be warned : you will have to add some functions, apply some code changes - and redo these edits when you upgrade. -
Gertjan, thanks for that thread link. that talks about modifying the code. no, i dont want to modify the code, what i just want to know is what code that will open up the logout page so that i will create my own php logout page with that code to open the actual logout form. that way i wont modify any actual original pfsense code for that matter. thanks again.
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Here it is : https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/ffeac248435b259e8d1254463a9446e56c6e5f64/src/etc/inc/captiveportal.inc#L263
Use that part to fabric your own logout 'popup' page. -
thanks, I will study it
