NetworkManager Web Authentication
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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)
- None
Contribution Opportunities
- Test on different web-authenticated networks (0.2 or 0.3 release)
- list of network devices (eth0, wlan1, etc) that may need web login
- 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
Project News / Updates
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
11/3/2008 -
- 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.
