[wsfii-discuss] Question: Hotspot logon standard (aka getting rid of captive portals)

[wlanmac]

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WISPr

It is supported at the vast majority of commercial hotspots, and sites
running chillispot/coovachilli if configured correctly. It is the
primary method of login for such clients at Boingo, iPass, etc. 

There are numerous free and commercial clients; including ones for
Firefox and Smartphones (supporting Java MIDlets):

http://coova.org/wiki/index.php/CoovaFX
http://coova.org/wiki/index.php/CoovaSX

David

On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 19:22 +0200, michel memeteau wrote:
> See the Wispr Spec. Some Clients  like http://devicescape.com/ can handle it .
> 
> Another Way Would be to Use WPA2 which does WPA Over radius .
> 
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Wolfgang Nagele <mail at wnagele.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > with more embedded devices including WiFi support (ex. eye.fi) but
> > lacking a user interface evolving, i thought of captive portals
> > becoming more and more inappropriate for logons to WiFi hotspots. So i
> > was wondering if anybody of you knew anything about ongoing efforts on
> > standardizing a protocol for such logons at hotspots?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Wolfgang
> >
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