Hey,

First of all I'd like to thank the many people who have contributed  
to m0n0wall. I heard about this project a while back, but didn't get  
the chance to give it a whirl until recently. I must say this piece  
of software is incredible (!) In comparison to some NS25's we're  
running at the office, m0n0wall offers more features and seems to be  
(so far) perfectly stable. Thank you very much for all the work you  
have put into this product!

We're looking to open a new WLAN, publically available as a free hot  
spot. I was amazed at how easily Captive Portal got up and running  
and all is going well, except for one thing. Basically, we want a  
"login page" (actually, it's more like a "I agree"-page) on the C.P.  
which redirects to an external site to which we have allowed access  
through C.P. even to "unknown" users. The meta-redirect works smooth,  
but I cannot seem to get the external page to "authenticate" the user  
through the standard HTML-form given in the examples.

We're not using Radius or anything of the sorts, so the form only  
contains one element; "accept". If I store this page through the Web- 
GUI locally on the box running m0n0wall, the form does it job, but as  
we need some extra functionality on this single page, I must be able  
to redirect the soon-to-be-authorized-users to the external site from  
where they then can accept the EULA, or decline to.

So, perhaps this would give you a better idea. I only seem to be  
getting this:
--
initial.destination.com ->
   C.P. Meta redirect ->
     portal.something.foo.com/page.jsp ->
       submit (POST) HTML-form ->
        portal.something.foo.com/page.jsp <-
--
...but this would be the ideal flow of things:
--
initial.destination.com ->
   C.P. Meta redirect ->
     portal.something.foo.com/page.jsp ->
       submit (POST) HTML-form ->
         initial.destination.com
--
Now, users will get stuck on "portal.something.foo.com/page.jsp" no  
matter how many times they click the "I agree" button of the HTML-form.

Has anyone managed to do this in a trivial matter or would it involve  
modifications to m0n0wall's source code?

I'd appreciate any help I can get on this one. Thanks again!



Kindly,
Didde Brockman