how to setup a web trap? (don't know the proper term)

rabbit2345 · 03-21-2014, 05:15 PM

Hi,

The idea I'm thinking of is similar to an airport's or coffee shop's wifi network, where they redirect you to a login page the first time you sign into their network. A few questions about this setup:

1. What's it called?

2. How is it implemented normally? I was thinking about using HTTP redirects, but I don't think that's how it's setup normally.

Thanks!
-rabbit

michaelk · 03-21-2014, 06:58 PM

captive portal

Here is one guide:
http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials...-fi-with-linux

rabbit2345 · 03-22-2014, 02:28 PM

Thanks for the swift reply.

Do you happen to know of a way to implement a captive portal in tools already available on most Linux distros? Like a combination of apache and iptables, that sort of thing.

-rabbit

michaelk · 03-22-2014, 03:17 PM

No idea if or how well it works...

http://aryo.info/labs/captive-portal...-iptables.html