On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Alexander C.H. Lorenz wrote:

> we want to use ssl as authenfication for captive portal users. Its
> possible or not? We want to code these, but we need the input hw we can
> change these ... Maybe a ssl-wrapper or via a small popup. At the moment
> a attacker can sniff the input I given via http ...

why don't you spawn the captive portal's mini_httpd as a https daemon ?

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