[Chilli] Filter requests to some URL before auth

[David Bird]

You could add some of those resources into the walled garden, or you might consider using the uamhomepage feature and a simple JavaScript redirect to your portal... Chances are these programs will not follow that redirect, but browsers with eyeballs watching will..  You could also perhaps filter dns so those sites don't resolve... 

I hope all is well....

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  David Bird
  Coova Technologies, LLC

On Feb 14, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Oriol Bosch <uribosch at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
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