I've setup a Captive Portal with dd-wrt, wifidog, authpuppy and some plugins from authpuppy as well as my own web app.
I am wondering what's the exact thing that will trigger a
browser on the client device to popup?
Is the popup browser from iPhone/iPad a regular browser mode?
It seems some JavaScript will fail on the browser mode, like the shake.js,
event though iOS Safari version is > 4.2.1 from https://github.com/alexgibson/shake.js/
P.S.:
I've done the research like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal
https://personaltelco.net/wiki/CaptivePortal
they don't talk much about the popup browser.
Could anyone help?
If you will try to see the network statistics [request/response] you will find out that devices like ios and android both of them continuously hits some particular urls [in case of android it is www.google.com/generate_204 , don't remember exact url for ios]. These url are generated by system internally. These pings let their server know about various details. So as soon as ios gets connected with a captive portal it tries to hit the system generated url, failing to which it understands that this is packet level protected network and open the browser.
Hope this helps.
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I have been trying to get the webrtc logs for my web application running over safari browser, similar to what we get in firefox by going to the page about:webrtc and on chrome by using chrome://webrtc-internals.
Alternatively, Is there any js API for webrtc to get the logs on the console itself, similar to what we use in Native Android and iOS applications using the RTCLogger.
Thanks in Advance
On Safari Version 15.4 (17613.1.17.1.13), useful information can be retrieved this way:
In Preferences... -> Advanced, ensure Show Develop menu in menu bar is enabled.
In the Develop menu Settings, select the Console tab, then ensure WebRTC Logging is not Off (and so choose either Basic or Verbose).
At that point the Console will show WebRTC events and data structures.
e.g.:
Solution
If you open the Safari and also open the console application, you can filter WebRTC logs with these filters:
category:WebRTC
process:safari (optional)
just copy-paste them one by one to the search bar in the console application. Actually, the second one is optional (process:safari).
I'm not sure about the others but at least you can see:
SDP offers and answers
ICE candidates
WebRTC statistics
incoming and outgoing video frame counters
Fun Fact
Based on the official documentation of WebRTC you can't see logs on Safari :)
Useful Infos
Do you know there is a WebRTC menu in the Safari. Check the Develop > WebRTC sub-menu
Check the Safari Technology Preview app for more options and flags
If you’re not logged in as an administrator, you need to enter an administrator name and password to search for and view log messages.
I have been trying to understand how Mobile Device Farms like DeviceConnect, AWS Device Farm, SauceLabs, etc. get to remote control iOS devices, but I can't find anything on the subject. They get to do it without jailbreaking, which baffles me even more.
I love these kind of projects, because at the moment it seems undoable, but I know that it is possible ('they' are doing it).
With remote control I mean: seeing the screen of the iOS device on your computer screen and able to touch and swipe with your mouse.
Can someone please point me in the right direction as to how these technically work?
If you're using an iPad (in particular) or an iPhone (if you think you'll be able to make our any detail on the smaller screen) then using remote access to view and control what's on your friend's Mac is a good option. And the best way to remote-access a Mac from an iPad is to use Google's free Chrome Remote Access service, which lets you remotely use Mac programs from an iOS device.
It's quite an involved process to set it up the first time, but easy if you want to do it again in future. You'll need the Google Chrome web browser for Mac, and a Google account.
Here is link for Chrome Remote access
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desktop/gbchcmhmhahfdphkhkmpfmihenigjmpp?hl=en
Open Chrome and go to Chrome Remote Desktop on the Chrome Webstore. Click Add to Chrome, then Add App. Click Allow, then Continue.
I will give you one approach and small explanation .
You will need to create application with all possible permissions at first also implementation handlers functions .
For example :
Works with files
Real native Socket connections (not http protocol) + need to have some main server signalling (domain or static ip).
Handle remote touch trigger (main problem for real remote/iOS)
Background part experience
Your app need to be non-Market app (more likely).
You can make Application with all possible options that apple give us.
What can you do remote with your app : -control camera/ Mic read geo data , work with galleries , delete or create files . Socket will be communication line .
Also app must initially started and make (on user request) always allow all permissions .
Use camera :
Send with socket some command example ( openCamera ) . AFTER receive this string perform action for opening camera .
If you can fix programability triggering touch events you can make remoteIOS.
More data links :
Q/A send remote events
Q about touch events
Q/A about Permisions
Sorry for the first quick answer,
All of these: DeviceConnect, AWS Device Farm, SauceLabs use Appium in order to control devices.
The component that execute the command is the WebDriver.
Appium have different WebDriver implementation in order to execute operations to different device.
The iOS WebDriver can be found here: https://github.com/appium/appium-ios-driver.
The protocol in use is the JsonWireProtocol.
more details can be found here:
http://appium.io/,
http://www.seleniumhq.org/
Regards
I am trying to implement a splash page/ wifi landing page on my existing public wifi network, using the DNS method mentioned in Wiki, in which I host a custom DNS server, that will redirect ALL dns lookup to a local address where a web server is hosted, for all user before they click agree.
After the user clicked agree, my custom DNS server starts returning correct ip for the look up, thus, user will be able to get online.
note: We totally understand that this is in no way secure our network, and even putting our network at risk. But the goal here is to just to pop the landing page up in front of our users.
This approach actually works on Windows Phone (Windows 8 I tested) as splash page, and even on a computer when I try to open a random website, it redirects me to my page, and after I hit agree, I can get to the internet.
When I try it on iPhone/ Android, once I connect to the hotspot, the splash page/ wifi landing page appear as expected (because the device is trying to verify internet access by going to the set of pages) However, after I click agree, and allow internet access, both iPhone and Android splash screen will not go away. I have to force iphone to "use this wifi without network" to exit.
I wonder if there is a special (javascript?) method I can call in the page, or some package I need to send to the device? I noticed on iOS, if I click a link to the App Store, the splash page go away without disconnecting from the network, So, I guess I am missing something here.
For example, clicking the link to the iOS StackOverflow App on iOS device can be a workaround.
Had been googling around for a week now, nothing seems to came up.
by the way, I am building my custom dns server on node js, with the module dnsd.
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I also uploaded a demo of my code on GitHub:
https://github.com/kylelam/dnsd_wifi
To test it, run it in your local network (sudo node demo.js). Then, change your phone's dns to your machine's IP. Disconnect your phone from wifi and connect to it again. (on iOS, you might need to go into detail, and enable auto-login, and auto-join, or if you can't, just reboot.)
*note1: the server will need to run on port 53, and 80, so it need sudo.
*note2: please don't laugh at my code, I'm very new to this. But please do point out.
*note3: you will need to npm install these packages: os, express, dns, dnsd
ttl set to 0 might be the cause of the issue, try a different value like 5.
On a mobile unit (iOS in this case) - I need to be able to open the connections mobile application to a particular profile, something like this: https://connectionsServer.com/profiles/html/profileView.do?userid=theProfileUID&lang=en_us
Triggering this URL would open the Connections application (if installed) and displaying the corresponding profile.
I doubt that IBM thought of it, but I you never know...
Thanks!
/J
The URL scheme for the IBM Connections app is of the form ibmscp://com.ibm.connections/.
Opening the app to a profile like your example would be done by opening the URL ibmscp://com.ibm.connections/profiles?userid=theProfileUID.
More information can be found on this IBM page.
I've developed a website that uses some PHP to write the client's user responses to a data file on my server. I've realized that the iPad cannot run PHP sites, and I'm at a complete loss as to what a good alternative would be. Javascript and HTML can't be used to write to a server, right? Help?
Thanks in advance.
Edit: I fixed it. The problem was that the iPad has problems with recognizing .click. I had to change it to .bind("click tap touch", function.... instead. It's weird how it was still able to recognize the click events that did not initiate a form submission (that is, when I was still using .click, the button worked, except for when it had to submit a form).
You'll need to put the PHP scripts up on a web host (e.g. GoDaddy.com or BlueHost.com) and then navigate to the website from a web browser on your iPad. The PHP will run on the server and so it will work whether you access it on a PC or an iPad.
While your developing, you could also access the server running on your computer from your iPad by navigating to http://<ip-address-of-your-computer>/myscript.php from mobile Safari or Chrome.
[EDIT] - Please note that the second option will only work while your computer and iPad are both on the same network.