[SOLVED] Internet access upon authentication

plmday · 2010-09-20 17:38:43

I am in a campus. To access the internet, a web-based authentication is required. They give us a url when entered in a browser it will direct us to a page which asks our username and password for authentication, if successful, we can access internet. Can anybody explain to me or point to me some other resources on how it works? Is it a proxy?

Let's come to the practical problem. Is it possible to get authenticated in the command line without a browser thing?

Last edited by plmday (2010-09-20 20:27:02)

Inxsible · 2010-09-20 18:00:05

use wget or curl, passing in the appropriate user name and password.

You will need to get the address link correctly.

stqn · 2010-09-20 18:03:32

Assuming the login form is an HTML form, you can probably fake it with a simple wget request.

plmday · 2010-09-20 20:26:27

Thanks, that solves my trouble,

Leonid.I · 2010-09-23 18:10:34

plmday wrote:

Thanks, that solves my trouble,

I was asking (quite lazily) the same question to myself some time ago... How did you solve it? Does your page use https and/or javascript? Mine has both...

Last edited by Leonid.I (2010-09-23 18:10:53)

karol · 2010-09-23 18:36:50

Try

curl http://user:password@url

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