[Chilli] Filter requests to some URL before auth

[Oriol Bosch]

I forgot to specify that we use:
chillispot 1.0-coova.6

And CoovaAp based on Openwrt v 0.9

2011/2/14 Oriol Bosch <uribosch at gmail.com>

> Hi all,
> It's been a long time since my last contribution to the list, but now we
> have a problem and we need to find a solution..  David or someone else may
> remember about me.
>
> We have an scenario with about 200 hotspots with a large number of users.
> We use CoovaAP in a quilte old version, but very stable so far.. so we would
> like to avoid changing it. Nowadays we still use as source of the website a
> perl script called hostpostlogin.cgi (i don't know if it's the used one in
> current version) and we have the problem that with the huge amount of GETs
> of this website, our webserver dies.
>
> We were thinking of what to do to solve this, and we have found that about
> 20~40% of the get's from unauthenticated users are made by Windows Update,
> or Antivirus updates or any other webservice.. and we would like to filter
> them.
>
> So there is the question, is it possible to do a kind of "walled garden"
> but in the opposite way? so that the url's/IP that we set are not redirected
> to the captive portal? I've made a few tests using iptables and the several
> firewall files present on the firmware, but I could not set this
> performance.
>
> Any help is appreciated! Thanks in advance.
>
> Oriol.
>
> --
> Oriol Bosch
> uribosch at gmail.com
> http://loiro.net
>



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Oriol Bosch
uribosch at gmail.com
http://loiro.net
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