Bug #7950

Consider using GNOME's captive portal handling

Added by intrigeri 2014-09-26 15:55:59 . Updated 2015-11-10 01:49:44 .

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Confirmed
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Normal
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2014-09-26
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Description

See https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.14/. It might be good for us, but it might as well be dangerous so to start with it is disabled in Tails/Jessie (Bug #10526).

This is implemented via the “connectivity” feature, see e.g. contrib/fedora/rpm/20-connectivity-fedora.conf in NM’s Git tree to see what kind of parameters it can take: basically, it just calls home via a HTTP request, and checks if it gets the expected response — see NetworkManager.conf(5) for details.

It also seems that another component of this feature (the “login agent”) was implemented in GNOME Shell (see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609870, that gives a little bit more details); see e.g. grep -iE (connectivity|portal) in Jessie’s GNOME Shell source => we should have a close look there too. Frederic Peters wrote that “Up in the stack GNOME Shell will automatically popup a window embedding a webkit widget set on the given URI (and thus, displaying the captive portal)”.

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Related issues

Copied to Tails - Bug #10526: Make sure that GNOME 3.14's captive portal handling is disabled on Tails/Jessie Resolved 2014-09-26

History

#1 Updated by intrigeri 2014-09-27 21:16:03

  • Description updated

#2 Updated by intrigeri 2014-09-27 21:19:11

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#3 Updated by intrigeri 2014-09-27 21:25:03

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#4 Updated by intrigeri 2014-11-26 18:04:48

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#5 Updated by intrigeri 2014-12-18 11:55:44

  • Assignee set to alant

Alan, do you want to take this one? If not, just deassign from you.

#6 Updated by intrigeri 2015-08-08 07:32:34

  • Assignee deleted (alant)

#7 Updated by intrigeri 2015-08-31 01:45:06

  • Description updated

#8 Updated by sajolida 2015-11-06 05:28:46

#9 Updated by intrigeri 2015-11-10 01:47:55

  • copied to Bug #10526: Make sure that GNOME 3.14's captive portal handling is disabled on Tails/Jessie added

#10 Updated by intrigeri 2015-11-10 01:49:44

  • Subject changed from Evaluate GNOME 3.14's captive portal handling to Consider using GNOME's captive portal handling
  • Description updated
  • Target version deleted (Tails_2.0)