Hi all,
I really hope I will get some good answers here to help us with the following:
We have a hotspot product using SMS authentication method. User chooses our WiFi Hotspot network and is redirected to our Login page. On iOS and Adroid a Captive Portal pop-up is activated showing our login page. We ask users to fill in a form and submit their phone number. When they click “Submit” we send them an SMS with a verification code. Login window (hosted on our server) changes to a new page which is displaying a field to enter the verification code. So far so good… If the user sees the “notification popup” for the SMS on his screen on top of the captive window he can see the code and enter it in the provided field and authenticate. BUT if he doesn’t have SMS notification set like this he has to go to his SMS App and look up the code. Now, the only way to do that is to close the Captive popup but then he gets disconnected from our hotspot. If he reconnects he needs to fill in the form again and gets a new SMS but he faces the same problem.
Now, all this time user is not authenticated so in iOS the captive window displays “Cancel” in the top right corner. I have seen this same method on other hotspots, but from the first Captive window, the control displayed in top right corner is “Done”. As far as i know the difference there is that the “Done” control is shown when the user is authenticated and “Cancel” while he hasn’t been authenticated yet.
Finally to my question: Is there a way to “fool” the CNA to “think” the user has internet access and display “Done” so when Captive window is closed, the device stays connected to our Hotspot? We are thinking either some “two-step” authentication, like temporary (to get “Done”) and then the “real” one after entering verification code. Another way might be to use some kind of script (like “Success” trick on iOS) to fool the CNA into thinking there’s internet access. But where and how to apply the “Success trick”? In some of the HTML pages in the router? Or somewhere in our login page code?
Any help would be much appreciated! I will post our final solution here for the community if we get it working.
THANKS!
Hi everyone,
I am really surprised that there were no comments or inputs so far. I could really use a help of a “guru” here.
Any ideas? You can also PM me.
Thanks
Is there a way to “fool” the CNA to “think” the user has internet access and display “Done” so when Captive window is closed, the device stays connected to our Hotspot?<
Yes. But I dunno, how to do it on MT, as it is closed. So, no surprise, you got no other response
You gave me one more arg, not to use MT for “above basic requirements” hotspots. Switched to openwrt/LEDE-based hotspots years ago already. As there are other shortcomings on MT-hotspots, too.
BTW: I did the special firmware for wifibus.com.mx. Using practically same procedure as you
