[Discuss] Use Linux laptop as wifi router? Is that even the right solution?

[John Abreau]

Here's what finally worked for phpbb, if it helps:

> wget -q -O /dev/null --save-cookies=./session-cookies \
>     --post-data='username=JohnDoe&password=foobar&login=Login' \
>     'http://www.example.com/forum/ucp.php?mode=login'
>
> sid=`cat ./session-cookies _ grep _sid | cut -d$'\011' -f7`
>
> wget -q -O page.html \
>     --post-data="username=JohnDoe&password=foobar&sid=$sid" \
>     "http://www.example.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=108191"

This gets the session id from the login page, then uses it to fetch topic
#108191 from forum #1.



On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 1:48 AM, John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Another option would be to figure out how to fake the browser
> authentication with curl or wget, so you can script it. I did this a few
> months ago for a phpbb forum.
>
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 1:16 AM, David Kramer <david at thekramers.net>
> wrote:
>
>> I recently became the proud owner of a Roku 3 box.  Very happy with it
>> minus one or two small details.  For grins, I brought it with me on
>> vacation, and immediately ran into the problem that the hotel wifi
>> requires an authentication page be filled out, which the Roku can't do
>> since it doesn't have a browser.
>>
>> Googling around on my laptop for a while, I've seen the following
>> solutions for this problem, some of which involve doing things with my
>> Linux laptop (Kubuntu 13.10 currently):
>>
>> 1) Change my laptop's MAC address temporarily to that of the Roku,
>> authenticate, then try to connect with the Roku.  Sounds reasonable,
>> except that it didn't work.  Not sure if I didn't change the mac address
>> right.  Might have to retry this, as it's the option that doesn't
>> require more hardware.  I found conflicting instructions on how to do
>> this on the command line, and every single page that talks about Network
>> Manager shows different options, since it changes so much and is
>> different betweek KDE and Gnome, etc.
>>
>> 2) Add a USB WiFi stick onto my laptop and set it up as a
>> router/repeater/whatever: I already have one, so nothing to buy but I
>> would have to bring it with me.  Don't have it right now so I couldn't
>> try it out, but here too I found lots of incomplete or unclear info.  If
>> there's a straightforward way to do this, please let me know.  If I need
>> to upgrade to the latest Kubuntu I'll do that.
>>
>> 3) Pick up a travel router and use it to NAT.  I see differing
>> information on whether the hotel network will see one MAC address or
>> each device's MAC address. This option really only works if the hotel
>> has wired internet (the hotel I stay at the most does).  But apparently
>> you have to run it in a specific mode that not all support, but I
>> couldn't find a consistent name for that mode, other than "Bridged isn't
>> what you want".  Some pages mentioned that some units can go "wifi to
>> wifi" with half the bandwidth.  I'll have to find that link.  Maybe it
>> does sending and receiving on different channels or something like
>> that.  I would be OK with spending money on this if need be, and I knew
>> it would work.  I also have a WRT54G I'm not using that I could test it
>> out with before buying something smaller.
>>
>> Did I miss any options?
>>
>> Does anyone have recent info on how to do any of these?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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