Review Request 128707: Add support for captive portals

[Sebastian Kügler]

> On Sept. 5, 2016, 3:47 p.m., Lamarque Souza wrote:
> > kded/portalmonitor.cpp, line 50
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128707/diff/4/?file=474728#file474728line50>
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> >     I am wondering how hard this waill affect kde.org web server. This patch has the potentional to create a DDoS attack-like effect on it. Maybe someone from sysadmin should evaluate this.
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> Jan Grulich wrote:
>     I don't think it will affect it, because when you are behind a captive portal you will get redirected immediately so kde.org won't be loaded at all. At least this is my understanding.

The user-friendlier portals will redirect you to the site you were originally going to, but I agree, kde.org can handle that (it's a static page request, should be cheap enough).

What could be pretty cool is if the user would be sent to a page that allows donating, kde.org does that, so there may be a net advantage, still.


- Sebastian


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On Sept. 6, 2016, 7:37 a.m., Jan Grulich wrote:
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> (Updated Sept. 6, 2016, 7:37 a.m.)
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> Review request for Network Management, Plasma, KDE Usability, and Lamarque Souza.
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> Bugs: 365417
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365417
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> Repository: plasma-nm
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> Description
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> Adds portal monitor to our kded module, which checks NetworkManager connectivity. If the value gets changed to NM_CONNECTIVITY_PORTAL (means we are behind a captive portal), then we open a QWebEngineView trying to load "http://kde.org" page which is supposed to be redirected to the captive portal page. Once user logs in and url changes, we re-check the connectivity again and close the web view if we are no longer behind the captive portal.
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> Diffs
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>   CMakeLists.txt a27c1f2 
>   kded/CMakeLists.txt 1f0613e 
>   kded/portalmonitor.h PRE-CREATION 
>   kded/portalmonitor.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   kded/service.cpp 18ffd41 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128707/diff/
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> Testing
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> Tested with three different captive portals and it worked perfectly.
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> Thanks,
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> Jan Grulich
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