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Re: [cat-users] Captive portal, CAT and Mac

From: Vidar Kværnø Stokke <vidar.stokke AT ntnu.no>
To: Christian Rank <christian.rank AT uni-passau.de>, "cat-users AT geant.net" <cat-users AT geant.net>
Subject: Re: [cat-users] Captive portal, CAT and Mac
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 06:44:14 +0000
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Thanks for the tip, Christian.

I will look into the possibilities of doing so in our captive portal. But I'm
afraid the portal with in our wireless controllers don't have this ability.

--
Best regards
Vidar Stokke
Senior Engineer
IT-division, Networking
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
(NTNU)
http://www.ntnu.no/it

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Christian Rank
>[mailto:christian.rank AT uni-passau.de]
>Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 4:13 PM
>To:
>cat-users AT geant.net
>Subject: Re: [cat-users] Captive portal, CAT and Mac
>
>On 01.07.2014 23:28, Vidar Kværnø Stokke wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> This is not directly related to Eduroam CAT, but the deployment of CAT to
>our users suffers from this kind of weird problem.
>>
>> We are currently struggling with a problem regarding Mac OS-X, CAT and a
>captive portal.
>>
>> The thing is that we have a captive portal on an SSID in our network. This
>SSID is primarily there to provide the Eduroam CAT to users without a working
>Eduroam configuration on their device. Eduroam CAT executables for the
>different operating systems are located locally on the web server hosting the
>captive portal.
>>
>> But, Mac OS-X users are struggling to download the tool from the portal. It
>seems that Mac OS-X does not allow anything else but web traffic in a phase
>where the client is not authenticated on the captive portal. So the cannot
>follow a link to for instance eduroam-MacOS-Mavericks-NTNU-
>N.mobileconfig. When I try to access the same file with a Windows laptop it
>works perfectly.
>>
>> Has anyone else experienced this?
>>
>>
>
>Hi Vidar,
>
>this could be due to Apple's autologin function:
>
>Apple devices test on establishing a network connection if they can access
>> http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html
>
>If this fails, the devices prompt for a "login".
>
>Solution: Redirect requests for the page mentioned above (should be no
>problem on the captive portal) to a HTML file with the following content:
>
><HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Success</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>Success</BODY></
>HTML>
>
>HTH,
> Christian
>
>--
>Dr. Christian Rank
>Rechenzentrum Universität Passau
>Bereich Netzwerk und Telekommunikation
>IT-Sicherheitsbeauftragter der Universität
>Innstr. 33
>D-94032 Passau
>GERMANY
>Tel.: 0851/509-1838
>Fax: 0851/509-1802

[cat-users] Captive portal, CAT and Mac, Vidar Kværnø Stokke, 07/01/2014
- Re: [cat-users] Captive portal, CAT and Mac, Christian Rank, 07/02/2014
  - Re: [cat-users] Captive portal, CAT and Mac, Vidar Kværnø Stokke, 07/04/2014