Craig McTaggart (Manchester) wrote:
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> I am interested in using Monowall to create a captive portal suite to
> sell broadband as a hotspot, I have got my radius server and every thing
> else good to go, but I have noticed the "Portal page" which you specify
> in Monowall is only a html file.
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Which can, in turn, redirect to a scripted page on a webserver on a 
captive-portal whitelist.
> I wish to use scripting to take payment from customers via Paypal which
> in turn gives them access with the user name and password (authenticated
> in the background via radius once payment is received), but my obvious
> problem is Monowall only allows a basic HTML file as the portal page so
> I cant run any scripting to get them registered!
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> Is it still possible to use scripting with the Monowall portal page to
> allow authentication?
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 Not *in* the m0n0wall box itself (not easily)...
> Hope someone can help, im probably just going about this the wrong way!
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I believe you are. Look for info on whitelisted ip addresses and set up 
your script on a whitelisted server running apache or whatever your 
choice of server is.
> Regards
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> Craig
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