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Best practice for a captive portal without a password?

bernard_hamlin — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 21:32:59 GMT

What's the best practice for setting up a captive portal login page without password? I'm already using the guestpass generating features so can't simultaneously set up a guest login page without authentication using the 'out of the box features' .

So I'm setting up hotspot services to redirect to a page where users can simply tick 'I accept the T&Cs' and be on their way (The reason for this is the different SSIDs can get to different network resources).

I can make a login page that simply uses a limited user's credentials to login but this feels wrong - surely there must be a better way to do this?

cheers
Bernard

Re: Best practice for a captive portal without a password?

alex_ortmanns — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 17:37:25 GMT

Hi Bernard,

Take a look here, I suggest creating a hotspot service, usign a portal page that shows a accept t&c button that will post a general login (username=user & password=user) to the zd.

http://docs.globaltele.com.ua/files/R... Docs/WISPr/WISPR_app_note_finaledit2.pdf

Re: Best practice for a captive portal without a password?

alex_ortmanns — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 17:42:37 GMT

Example

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function get_param(name)


{


    if (location.href.indexOf("?") >= 0) { 


        var query=location.href.split("?")[1];


        var params=query.split("&");


        for (var i = 0; i < params.length; i ++) {


            value_pair=params[i].split("=");


            if (value_pair[0] == name)


                return unescape(value_pair[1]);


        }


    }


    return "";


}




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Re: Best practice for a captive portal without a password?

bernard_hamlin — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 00:41:46 GMT

Hi Alex,

That's great - thank you. I ended up doing almost exactly that and confirmed with ruckus support that this a recommended way to do it. Something in me just didn't like the hidden username/password. Also the timeout for users is based on MAC so sharing a username doesn't change the timeout settings 🙂

Cheers!

Bernard

Re: Best practice for a captive portal without a password?

martin_kane — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 03:09:36 GMT

Thanks for the code Alex. I've blatantly copied it and used it myself 🙂 I do have a problem with being kicked off the network after some unknown time and having to press the "I agree" button again - that despite setting the "disconnect after" options to a large number...

Re: Best practice for a captive portal without a password?

claudio_bilotta — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:30:10 GMT

Anyone achieve this using ajax ?
the respond from the controller is html

Re: Best practice for a captive portal without a password?

sureal_alamsjah — Tue, 03 May 2016 05:43:45 GMT

Hi guys,

I'm looking for this but for Unleashed series. Does this script works as well with Unleashed?

Re: Best practice for a captive portal without a password?

nuno_pimentel — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 16:37:50 GMT

Hello i'm starting to do a captive portal i'm following you example but i'm struggling with the authentication part. Can you help me? first of all i don't have the ZD in the same lan, neither the web-server, all have public ip's, i thing the problem is in the Post method, i already changed to https but .. nothing.

Re: Best practice for a captive portal without a password?

hyosang_choi — Sat, 21 Jan 2017 23:42:10 GMT

UAP is same as ZD.

Re: Best practice for a captive portal without a password?

alon_carmel_b6a — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 14:34:33 GMT

Is there an example showing all the related params needed todo this on SZ? There are alot of params that need to be taken from the URL and passed to the controller and I'm having hard time getting this to work.