Whoa there Jimmy

Posted on June 11, 2003, under legacy.

If this makes sense to you, could you explain it to me …! I’d like to know why. First person brave enough to deal with this guy gets the 20 dollars, mail me.

From: “Jonathan Steinberg” <gone>
Reply-To: <gone>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 09:23:24 -0400
To: Colm MacCarthaigh <gone>
Subject: dell ap

Read your report on the Dell AP. Could you run a captive portal on it.or
better yet redirect a user when they first log onto the AP to a specific
URL?

From: Colm MacC�rthaigh <gone>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:18:33 +0100
To: Jonathan Steinberg <gone>
Subject: Re: dell ap

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:23:24AM -0400, Jonathan Steinberg wrote:
> Read your report on the Dell AP. Could you run a captive portal on it.or
> better yet redirect a user when they first log onto the AP to a specific
> URL?

Sure, it’d be trivial. It’s running thttpd which you could configure
to do it, or just use inetd and cat, something like the following:

HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Location: http://yoururl
<blank line>

–
Colm MacC�rthaigh

From: “Jonathan Steinberg” <gone>
Reply-To: <gone>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:52:15 -0400
To: ‘Colm MacC�rthaigh’ <gone>
Subject: RE: dell ap

After that first initial redirection would the user be free to surf any
sites they please?

If you buy the access point and input the URL I request, I’d pay you $20 on
top of the AP price. This would be a great favor to me as I am not much of
a programmer…