NetworkManager Web Authentication
Name of Project
NetworkManager Web Authentication
Description
NetworkManager knows how to connect to many different types of networks, both wired and wireless, and can auto-authenticate to WEP and WPA networks. However, it can't auto-authenticate to networks that require a web-based login, which includes many wired and wireless networks such as SeneNET and AirYork.
Modify NetworkManager so that it talks (though dbus) to a Firefox extension for automatic login to a web-authenticated network.
Resources: ctyler, (roc, callion for dbus)
Leader(s)
Project Contributor(s)
- Scott Lunel, Patrick Lam, Tony Lai - network login page screenshot and HTML
- Aaron Train, Thomas Brown - Tested nmAutoLogin 0.1/0.3
Contribution Opportunities
- Test 0.3 release (see info and instructions in this blog post.
- Network authentication web pages (ie: SeneNET, AirYork, etc)
- HTML
- Screenshot
- URL to login (ie: https://net1.senecac.on.ca) (optional)
- Keeping directory structures intact when exporting files during build (see this blog post for more details)
Project Details
Releases
0.1 - October 18, 2008
- XPCOM objects & extension that communicates with DBus
- Proof-of-concept of having an external program talking with an extension
- Source & compiled files can be found here
- More detailed blog entry on the release
0.2 - November 15, 2008
- DBus listener put into background thread, no longer ties up Firefox
- Split into 2 extensions in case anybody else wants to try it out
- Direction gathered from NetworkManager mailing list for the 0.3
- More organized codebase and terminal output
- Source & compiled files can be found here
- More detailed blog entry on the release
0.3 - December 4, 2008
- Renumbered to 0.1 for the release to the NM mailing list
- Added Python script to listen to NM connection
- Reworked Javascript threading
- Automatically opens a new window in Firefox at "https://net1.senecac.on.ca" and submits it
- Source & compiled files can be found here
- More detailed blog entry on the release
Project News / Updates
12/15/2008 -
- Sent email to NetworkManager mailing list about 0.1/0.3
12/04/2008 -
- 0.3 release. Info on my blog
12/03/2008 -
- 0.3 pre-release, for people to test, before the full release sometime this week
12/01/2008 -
- Daemon is essentially done. There is more to be done for this in the future, but for this 0.3, it is done
- Picks up connected to network
- Pulls out SSID from selected wifi network
- Sends "network connect" signal to FF, followed by the SSID of the network
- One thing needs to be fixed in Firefox, and I will consider myself done my 0.3 release
11/29/2008 -
- Some sort of blog post about britches (this is what happens when I feel silly, but am making a blog post)
- The daemon part of the 0.3 release is nearly complete
- Listens for when NM connects to a network
- Does a bunch of black magic and spits out the active network's SSID
11/23/2008 -
- Spoke with Dan Williams on IRC about NM and DBus. A lot of questions answered, and some good documentation provided
- Started work on nmAutoLogin daemon
11/19/2008 -
- Contributions by Patrick Lam and Tony Lai
11/15/2008 -
- All files packaged, and releasing 0.2
11/14/2008 -
- All modifications to 0.1 for 0.2 have been completed. I will package it all and upload it tomorrow, along with the usual blog post to explain it
11/12/2008-
- Scott Lunel provided a contribution of information
- Extension now listens in background for a signal, rather than holding up the browser
- Main components of 0.3 have been decided upon
- External app to act as an in-between for Firefox and NetworkManager
11/10/2008 -
- Contribution from Scott Lunel
11/3/2008 -
- Posted updated ideas to the NetworkManager Mailing list
10/17/2008 -
- Near-complete 0.1 release ready. A few small fixes would be nice, but seems good to go
- Added some major events to wiki
10/14/2008 -
- The XPCOM objects compile, and have DBus support in them
10/09/2008 -
- I now know I need XPCOM objects too talk with the D-Bus bus
- Almost have the components compiled, then can add functionality
- I am now using C++ rather than Python--easier to understand
09/28/2008 -
- Signed up for the NetworkManager mailing list
- Asked for ideas for project, general dislike of using Firefox, suggestion of libraries to use
- Would still need a Javascript engine
09/23/2008 -
- Started looking into Python for DBus communication
09/18/2008 -
- Met with David and Chris to talk about how this will be done
- 0.1 release will be a small extension in Firefox and a second program to talk back & forth via dbus
09/16/2008 -
- Created Project page for this project.