just at a cursory level look this is crap. I work with secure proxies (Tivoli 
Access Manager) that behave exactly as put forth in this patent and this 
product has been around since 1997. Not sure if this patent will hold up....

Chet Harvey
Pitbull Technologies <http://www.pittech.com/> 
Protecting your Digital Assets
703.407.7311


Quoting Dinesh Nair <dinesh at alphaque dot com>:

> On 09/10/2004 18:21 Götz Görisch said the following:
> > I just read about a captive portal patent of Acacia, so I just want to 
> > pass on the link:
> > 
> > http://wifinetnews.com/archives/004184.html
> 
> that's quite interesting. let me check thru the acacia patent to see if 
> it's valid.
> 
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